Jean Matter Mandler

The Foundations of Mind

Origins of Conceptual Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Mandler also addresses the neglected issues of how concepts such as animacy, inanimacy, agency, goal, containment, and support are represented in the mind. She suggests that image-schemas, used by cognitive linguists to represent underlying linguistic meanings, also format the basic concepts used by infants for inferential thought and language learning. She also shows how a mechanism that analyzes spatial displays leads to mini-theories about how various objects interact with one another. Countering strong nativist and empiricist views, Mandler provides a fresh and markedly different perspective on early cognitive development, painting a new picture of the abilities and accomplishments of infants and the development of the mind.

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In The Foundations of Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed into concepts. Drawing on her extensive research, Mandler explores preverbal conceptualization and shows how it forms the basis for both thought and language. She also emphasizes the importance of distinguishing automatic perceptual processes from attentive conceptualization, and argues that these two kinds of learning follow different principles, so it is crucial to specify the processes required by a given task. Countering both strong nativist and empiricist views, Mandler provides a fresh and markedly different perspective on early cognitive development, painting a new picture of the abilities and accomplishments of infants and the development of the mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780195172003
• ISBN-10: 0195172000
• Artikelnr.: 22464852

Autorenporträt

Jean Matter Mandler is Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego. She is the author of Stories, Scripts, and Scenes (1984) and Thinking (1964).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: How to Build a Baby: Prologue
* 2: Piaget's Sensorimotor Infant
* 3: Kinds of Representation: Seeing and Thinking
* 4: Perceptual Meaning Analysis and Image-Schemas: The Infant as
Interpreter
* 5: Some Image-Schemas and their Functions
* 6: Some Differences between Percepts and Concepts: The Case of the
Basic Level
* 7: Some Preverbal Concepts
* 8: Conceptual Categories as Induction Machines
* 9: Continuity in the Conceptual System: Acquisition, Breakdown and
Reorganization
* 10: Recall of the Past
* 11: Language Acquisition
* 12: Consciousness and Conclusions