Taking a stand between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, this text offers a theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches and applies it to the study of human cognition. Cognitive development is seen to provide a portrait of the flexibility of the huma…
House as a Mirror of Self is an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. It is not about architecture, or decorating styles, or real estate, but about the more subtle bonds…
The authors attempt to show how a cognitive account of development can be derived from a biological basis, using the example of the development of face recognition. They propose a theory of development of face recognition which involves two constructs, Conspec and Conlern.
In Semantic and Conceptual Development, Frank Keil presents the first psychological investigation of the developing child's ontological knowledge. Building on previous philosophical work, Keil shows that ontological categories develop in a highly predictable progression. Moreove…
In Smart Machines, John E. Kelly III, director of IBM Research, and Steve Hamm, a writer at IBM and a former business and technology journalist, introduce the fascinating world of "cognitive systems" to general audiences and provide a window into the future of computing. Cogniti…
Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Pi…
The concept of "psychological tools" is a cornerstone of L.S. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of cognitive development. Psychological tools are the symbolic cultural artifacts - signs, symbols, texts, formulae, and most fundamentally, language - that enable us to master psycholo…
The concept of "psychological tools" is a cornerstone of L.S. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of cognitive development. Psychological tools are the symbolic cultural artifacts - signs, symbols, texts, formulae, and most fundamentally, language - that enable us to master psycholo…