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Oxford Series in Cognitive Development

What Babies Know

Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1

Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard University)

What Babies Know

Oxford Series in Cognitive Development

What Babies Know

Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1

Oxford Series in Cognitive Development: What Babies Know

 

In this major new work, Elizabeth Spelke distils findings from developmental, comparative, and cognitive psychology to explore what young infants know, and what they quickly come to learn, about objects, places, numbers, geometry, and people's actions, social engagements, and mental states.


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Beschrijving Oxford Series in Cognitive Development: What Babies Know

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers to this question shed light not only on infants but on children and adults in all cultures, because the core knowledge possessed by infants never goes away. Instead, it underlies the unspoken, common sense knowledge of people of all ages, in all societies. By studying babies, researchers gain insights into infants themselves, into older children's prodigious capacities for learning, and into some of the unconscious assumptions that guide our thoughts and actions as adults.

In this major new work, Elizabeth Spelke shares these insights by distilling the findings from research in developmental, comparative, and cognitive psychology, with excursions into studies of animal cognition in psychology and in systems and cognitive neuroscience, and studies in the computational cognitive sciences. Weaving across these disciplines, she paints a picture of what young infants know, and what they quickly come to learn, about objects, places, numbers, geometry, and people's actions, social engagements, and mental states.

A landmark publication in the developmental literature, the book will be essential for students and researchers across the behavioral, brain, and cognitive sciences.


ISBN
9780190618247
Pagina's
576
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Serie
Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
NUR
770
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Psychologie