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Zusatztext "Anyone interested in perception in general or perceptual development in particular would treasure this book, including researchers, students, and the interested public. Numerous illustrations enhance a lively text, written in an engaging style. This outstanding revision provides an up-to-date account of what we have learned over the last four decades about infant perception. Informationen zum Autor Martha E. Arterberry is Professor of Psychology at Colby College, Maine. She received her BA from Pomona College and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She previously was Professor of Psychology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, and she is a collaborative investigator at the Child and Family Research Section of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Arterberry currently serves as a consulting editor for Developmental Psychology, and she is a co-author of Development in Infancy: A Contemporary Introduction, Fifth Edition (2013). Her research interests in perceptual and cognitive development include the study of depth perception, three-dimensional object perception, categorization, and memory. Philip J. Kellman is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Cognitive Area in the Department of Psychology, and Adjunct Professor of Surgery, at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his BS from Georgetown University, and his MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards including the Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association, and the William Chase Memorial Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, and he has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and of the Association for Psychological Science. His research interests include object, space, and motion perception, perceptual learning, and applications of perception and cognition to develop and optimize computer-based learning technology. Klappentext In The Cradle of Knowledge: Development of Perception in Infancy Revisited, Martha E. Arterberry and Philip J. Kellman study the methods and data of scientific research on infant perception, introducing and analyzing topics (such as space, pattern, object, and motion perception) through philosophical, theoretical, and historical contexts. Zusammenfassung In The Cradle of Knowledge: Development of Perception in Infancy Revisited, Martha E. Arterberry and Philip J. Kellman study the methods and data of scientific research on infant perception, introducing and analyzing topics (such as space, pattern, object, and motion perception) through philosophical, theoretical, and historical contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Forward Preface Chapter 1 Views of Perception and Perceptual Development Chapter 2 Physiological and Sensory Foundations of Perceptual Development Chapter 3 Space Perception Chapter 4 Pattern Perception Chapter 5 Object Perception Chapter 6 Motion and Event Perception Chapter 7 Auditory Perception Chapter 8 Intermodal Perception Chapter 9 Perception and Action Chapter 10 Perceptual Foundations of Social Development Chapter 11 Perceptual Foundations of Cognitive Development Chapter 12 Themes and Applications References Index ...
