The foundations of mind : origins of conceptual thought / Jean Matter Mandler.

This title offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mandler, Jean Matter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Oxford series in cognitive development.
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Table of 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.