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Informationen zum Autor Kelly S. Mix is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory at Michigan State University. She is the co-author, with J. Huttenlocher and S. C. Levine, of Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood (OUP 2002). Linda B. Smith is Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory at Indiana University. She has published widely on cognition and language acquisition. Michael Gasser is Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He has published widely on cognition and language acquisition. S. Mix is Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory at Michigan State University. She is the co-author, with J. Huttenlocher and S. C. Levine, of Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood (OUP USA 2002). Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning. Experimental psychologists, computer scientists, robotocists, linguists, and researchers in child language consider the nature and applications of this research and its implications for understanding the processes involved in language acquisition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Thinking Through Space 1: Andy Clark: Minds in Space 2: Michael Spivey, Daniel C. Richardson, and Carlos A. Zednik: Language is Spatial, Not Special: On the Demise of the Symbolic Approximation Hypothesis 3: Kelly S. Mix: Spatial Tools for Mathematical Thought 4: Michael Ramscar, Teenie Matlock, and Lera Boroditsky: Time, Motion, and Meaning: The Experiential Basis of Abstract Thought Part II: From Embodiment to Abstract Thought 5: Janellen Huttenlocher, Stella F. Lourenco, and Marina Vasilyeva: Perspectives on Spatial Development 6: John Lipinski, John P. Spencer, and Larissa K. Samuelson: It's in the Eye of the Beholder: Spatial Language and Spatial Memory Use the Same Perceptual Reference Frames 7: Barbara Landau, Kirsten O'Hearn, and James E. Hoffman: Tethering to the Word, Coming Undone 8: Laura A. Carlson: Encoding Space in Spatial Language Part III: Using Space to Ground Language 9: Linda B. Smith and Larissa K. Samuelson: Objects in Space and Mind: From Reaching to Words 10: Chen Yu and Dana Ballard: The Role of the Body in Infant Language Learning 11: Erin Cannon and Paul R. Cohen: Talk About Motion: The Semantic Representation of Verbs by Motion Dynamics ...
