Synopses & Reviews
Written by a group of developmental scientists, this book debates cognitive achievements in early infancy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The editors combine knowledge from different areas of infant development research to present an integrated view of the cognitive abilities emerging in early infancy. The chapters are arranged in a sequence that best conveys to the reader the line of reasoning that emerged during the development of this book. The book opens with chapters dealing with fundamental and general aspects of cognitive development, sweeps through the specific theme of language acquisition, and closes by returning to general questions concerning different representation modalities.
Synopsis
This vol brings together resrchers on different aspects of infant development, each of whom demonstrates the connectns between cognitive, linguistic, and motor development. For resrchers and graduate-level students in devlopmntal and cognitve psychology
Table of Contents
Development of perceptual organization / Kirsten F. Condry, W. Carter Smith, and Elizabeth S. Spelke -- Task dependency in infant behavior : toward an understanding of the processes underlying cognitive development / Yuko Munakata -- Infants' initial "knowledge" of the world : a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Mark H. Johnson -- On the early development of action, perception, and cognition / Claes von Hofsten -- Auditory and articulatory biases influence the initial stages of the language acquisition process / Francisco Lacerda and Ulla Sundberg -- Speech, language, and developmental change / Patricia K. Kuhl -- Phonetic variability in baby talk and development of vowel categories / Barbara L. Davis and Bjèorn Lindblom -- In the beginning, was the word... / Peter W. Jusczyk -- Domain specificity and the epistemic triangle : the development of the concept of animacy in infancy / Maria Legerstee -- "Discovery procedures" for people and things--the role of representation and identity / Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore -- Neonatal imitation--a "fuzzy" phenomenon? / Mikael Heimann.