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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts. Drawing on extensive research, Mandler describes the development of preverbal concept formation, inductive inference, and recall, and explains how these processes form the conceptual basis for language and adult thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
