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The origins of object knowledge / edited by Bruce M. Hood, Laurie R. Santos.

Title
  1. The origins of object knowledge / edited by Bruce M. Hood, Laurie R. Santos.
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  1. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Additional authors
  1. Hood, Bruce M. (Bruce MacFarlane)
  2. Santos, Laurie.
Description
  1. xi, 378 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 'The Origins of Object Knowledge' presents the most up-to-date research into how the developing human mind understands the world of objects and their properties. It presents some of the best findings from leading research groups in the field of object representation from the perspective of developmental and comparative psychology.
Uniform title
  1. University press scholarship online.
Subject
  1. Kennis
  2. Knowledge representation (Information theory)
  3. Mental representation
  4. Mentale representatie
  5. Object (Philosophy)
  6. Objectiviteit
  7. Perception [MESH]
Contents
  1. Object representation as a central issue in cognitive science / Laurie R. Santos & Bruce M. Hood -- Beyond 'what' and 'how many' : capacity, complexity, and resolution of infants' object representations / Jennifer M. Zosh & Lisa Feigenson -- A comparative approach to understanding human numerical cognition / Kerry E. Jordan & Elizabeth M. Brannon -- Multiple object tracking in infants : four (or so) ways of being discrete / Marian L. Chen & Alan M. Leslie -- Do the same principles constrain persisting object representations in infant cognition and adult perception? The cases of continuity and cohesion / Erik W. Cheries [and others] -- Spatiotemporal priority as a fundmental principle of object persistence / Jonathan I. Flombaum, Brian J. Scholl, & Laurie R. Santos -- Infants' representations of material entities / Rebecca D. Rosenberg & Susan Carey -- The developmental origins of animal and artifact concepts / Kristin Shutts, Lori Markson, & Elizabeth S. Spelke -- Building object knowledge from perceptual input / Dima Amso & Scott P. Johnson -- Modeling the origins of object knowledge / Denis Mareschal & Andrew J. Bremmer -- Induction, overhypotheses, and the shape bias : some arguments and evidence for rational constructivism / Fei Xu, Kathryn Dewar, & Amy Perfors -- Young infants' expectations about self-propelled objects / Renée Baillargeon [and others] -- Clever eyes and stupid hands : current thoughts on why dissociations of apparent knowledge occur on solidity tasks / Nathalia L. Gjersoe & Bruce M. Hood.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.