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By: Eleanor J. Gibson

ISBN: 9780262571036
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Annette Karmiloff-Smith

ISBN: 9780262611145
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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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By: Frank C. Keil

ISBN: 9780262610766
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1992
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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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By: Gary F. Marcus

ISBN: 9780262632683
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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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By: Paul Bloom

ISBN: 9780262523295
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes.