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The foundations of mind [electronic resource] : origins of conceptual thought / Jean Matter Mandler.

By: Mandler, Jean Matter.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Oxford series in cognitive development: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xiii, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Cognition in infants | Concepts in infantsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 155.42/2323 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
How to build a baby : prologue -- Piaget's sensorimotor infant -- Kinds of representation : seeing and thinking -- Perceptual meaning analysis and image-schemas : the infant as interpreter -- Some image-schemas and their functions -- Some differences between percepts and concepts : the case of the basic level -- Some preverbal concepts -- Conceptual categories as induction machines -- Continuity in the conceptual system : acquisition, breakdown, and reorganization -- Recall of the past -- Language acquisition -- Consciousness and conclusions.
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155.42/2323 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-341) and indexes.

How to build a baby : prologue -- Piaget's sensorimotor infant -- Kinds of representation : seeing and thinking -- Perceptual meaning analysis and image-schemas : the infant as interpreter -- Some image-schemas and their functions -- Some differences between percepts and concepts : the case of the basic level -- Some preverbal concepts -- Conceptual categories as induction machines -- Continuity in the conceptual system : acquisition, breakdown, and reorganization -- Recall of the past -- Language acquisition -- Consciousness and conclusions.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.