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The Epigenesis of mind : essays on biology and cognition

Author: Susan Carey; Rochel Gelman; Jean Piaget Society. Symposium
Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.
Series: Jean Piaget Symposium series.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Carey; Rochel Gelman; Jean Piaget Society. Symposium
ISBN: 0805804382 9780805804386
OCLC Number: 22542683
Notes: Chiefly papers presented at the symposium, Biology and knowledge: structural constraints on development, held in 1988, sponsored by the Jean Piaget Society.
Description: xi, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Biological contributions to cognition --
Lessons from animal learning for the study of cognitive development / C.R. Gallistel, Ann L. Brown, Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman, and Frank C. Keil --
The instinct to learn / Peter Marler --
Neuropsychological insights into the meaning of object concept development / Adele Diamond --
Contrasting concepts of the critical period for language / Elissa L. Newport --
Innate knowledge and beyond. Physical knowledge in infancy : reflections on Piaget's theory / Elizabeth S. Spelke --
Beyond modularity : innate constraints and developmental change / Annette Karmiloff-Smith --
Constraining nativist inferences about cognitive capacities / Kurt W. Fischer and Thomas Bidell --
The emergence of theoretical beliefs as constraints on concepts / Frank C. Keil --
Knowledge acquisition : enrichment or conceptual change? / Susan Carey --
Epigenetic foundations of knowledge structures : initial and transcendent constructions / Rochel Gelman.
Series Title: Jean Piaget Symposium series.
Responsibility: edited by Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman.
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