What babies know: core knowledge and composition

by Spelke, Elizabeth

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Title Statements

Full title :What babies know : core knowledge and composition. / Elizabeth S. Spelke.

Summary

"What do infants know, and how does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers to this question shed light not only on infants but on children and adults in all cultures, because the core knowledge possessed by infants never goes away. Instead, it underlies the unspoken, common sense knowledge of people of all ages, in all societies. By studying babies, researchers gain insights into infants themselves, into older children's prodigious capacities for learning, and into some of the unconscious assumptions that guide our thoughts and actions as adults. To share these insights, Spelke distils the findings from research in developmental, comparative, and cognitive psychology, with excursions into studies of animal cognition in psychology and in systems and cognitive neuroscience, and studies in the computational cognitive sciences. Weaving across these disciplines, she paints a picture of what young infants know, and what they quickly come to learn, about objects, places, number, geometry, and people's actions, social engagements, and mental states"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022

The Physical Object

Description:xxviii, 532 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190618247, 0190618248
oclc:on1293451333
LC Classification:HQ774
Dewey Decimal:305.232

1. Vision -- 2. Objects -- 3. Places -- 4. Number -- 5. Core Knowledge -- 6. Forms -- 7. Agents -- 8. Core Social Cognition -- 9. Language -- 10. Beyond Core Knowledge.