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Book SynopsisThe cognitive revolution in the 1950s and 1960s led researchers to view the human mind--like a computer--as an information-processing system that encodes, represents, and stores information and is constrained by limits on hardware (the brain) and software (learning strategies and rules). The emergence of new behavioral, computational, and neuroscience methodologies, has deeply expanded psychologists'' understanding of the workings of the infant, child, and adult mind. One result is that research has focused on mechanisms of change, over developmental time, in the information-processing mind.In this book, Lisa Oakes, Cara Cashon, Marianella Casasola, and David Rakison bring together the recent findings and theories about the origins and early development of the information-processing mind, and provide insight into the future directions in the study of infant perception and cognition. The contributors represent a wide-range of research areas in the study of infant perception and cognitio
Trade ReviewThis book ... gives us an excellent understanding of where we have been and a guide for exploring our future in the context of a very strong theoretical framework; it is a distinctive contribution to the literature. * PsychCritiques *
Table of Contents1. Varieties of Attention in Infancy John Colombo, Leah Kapa, and Lori Curtendale 2. Infant Attention, Arousal, and the Brain John E. Richards 3. A Constructivist View of Object Perception in Infancy Scott Johnson 4. Development of Specialized Face Perception During Infancy: An Information-processing Perspective Cara H. Cashon 5. The Role of Perceptual Processes in Infant Addition/Subtraction Experiments Alan M. Slater, J. Gavin Bremner, Scott P. Johnson, and Rachel A. Hayes 6. Perceptual Constraints on Implicit Memory for Visual Features: Statistical Learning in Human Infants Richard N. Aslin 7. Computational Modeling of Infant Concept Learning: The Developmental Shift from Features to Correlations Thomas R. Shultz 8. Information Processing Approaches to Infants' Developing Representation of Dynamic Features Kelly L. Madole, Lisa M. Oakes, and David H. Rakison 9. Infant Spatial Categorization from an Information Processing Approach Marianella Casasola 10. The Role of Auditory Stimuli in Infant Categorization Kim Plunkett 11. The Development of Categorization and Facial Knowledge: Implications for the Study of Autism Lisa Newell, Catherine Best, Holly Gastgeb, Keiran Rump, and Mark Strauss 12. Emerging Competence with Symbolic Artifacts: Implications for the Study of Categorization and Concept Development Barbara A. Younger and Kathy Johnson
