Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
This series in learning, development, and conceptual change will include state-of-the-art reference works, seminal book-length monographs, and texts on the development of concepts and mental structures. It will span learning in all domains of knowledge, from syntax to geometry to the social world, and will be concerned with all phases of development, from infancy through adulthood. The series intends to engage such fundamental questions as—The nature and limits of learning and maturation: the influence of the environment, of initial structures, and of maturational changes in the nervous system on human development; learnability theory; the problem of induction; domain-specific constraints on development; and The nature of conceptual change: conceptual organization and conceptual change in child development, in the acquisition of expertise, and in the history of science.
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The Algebraic Mind
Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science
ISBN: 9780262632683
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 24, 2003
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the...
Learnability and Cognition, new edition
Learnability and Cognition
The Acquisition of Argument Structure
ISBN: 9780262518406
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2013
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."
Words, Thoughts, and Theories
ISBN: 9780262571265
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 1998
Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming...
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
ISBN: 9780262523295
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 25, 2002
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think,"...
Systems That Learn
An Introduction to Learning Theory for Cognitive and Computer Scientists
ISBN: 9780262650243
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 14, 1990
A mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains.
Mindblindness
An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind
ISBN: 9780262522250
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 1997
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously....
Race in the Making
Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds
ISBN: 9780262581721
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 1998
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.Hirschfeld...
Beyond Modularity
A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science
ISBN: 9780262611145
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 25, 1995
Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how...
Conceptual Change In Childhood
Conceptual Change In Childhood
ISBN: 9780262530736
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 5, 1987
Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan...
Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use
Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use
Bridging the Language-as-Product and Language-as-Action Traditions
ISBN: 9780262701044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 22, 2004
Recent approaches to language processing have focused either on individual cognitive processes in producing and understanding language or on social cognitive factors in interactive conversation. Although...
The Algebraic Mind
Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science
ISBN: 9780262632683
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 24, 2003
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the...
Learnability and Cognition, new edition
Learnability and Cognition
The Acquisition of Argument Structure
ISBN: 9780262518406
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2013
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."
Words, Thoughts, and Theories
ISBN: 9780262571265
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 1998
Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming...
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
ISBN: 9780262523295
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 25, 2002
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think,"...
Systems That Learn
An Introduction to Learning Theory for Cognitive and Computer Scientists
ISBN: 9780262650243
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 14, 1990
A mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains.
Mindblindness
An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind
ISBN: 9780262522250
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 22, 1997
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously....
Race in the Making
Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds
ISBN: 9780262581721
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 1998
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.Hirschfeld...
Beyond Modularity
A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science
ISBN: 9780262611145
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 25, 1995
Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how...
Conceptual Change In Childhood
Conceptual Change In Childhood
ISBN: 9780262530736
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 5, 1987
Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan...
Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use
Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use
Bridging the Language-as-Product and Language-as-Action Traditions
ISBN: 9780262701044
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 22, 2004
Recent approaches to language processing have focused either on individual cognitive processes in producing and understanding language or on social cognitive factors in interactive conversation. Although...