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An Odyssey in Learning and Perception documents a fifty-year intellectual expedition in the areas of learning and perceptionalways with an eye to combining them in a theory of perceptual learning and development, a theory that may be broadly applicable to humans and nonhumans, young and old.

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Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, this work offers a theory of developmental change which embraces both approaches, showing their value to a basic theory of human cognition. This book was awarded the 1995 British Psychological Society Award.

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In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank Keil develops a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages.

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A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."

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This text argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms have evolved that result in "mindreading", an ability to interpret, for the most part unconsciously, non-verbal actions. It suggests that autistic children suffer from "mindblindness" due to selective developmental impairment in mindreading.

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An attempt to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel.

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How children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes.