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

Author/creator Mandler, Jean Matter
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Descriptionxiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Oxford series in cognitive development
Oxford series in cognitive development. ^A537052
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-341) and indexes.
LCCN 2003017304
ISBN0195172000 :

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