Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques MehlerInterdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later, cognitive science is a flourishing academic field. The contributions to this collection, written in honor of Jacques Mehler, a founder of the field of psycholinguistics, assess the progress of cognitive science. The questions addressed include: What have we learned or not learned about language, brain, and cognition? Where are we now? Where have we failed? Where have we succeeded? The book is organized into four sections in addition to the introduction: thought, language, neuroscience, and brain and biology. Some chapters cut across several sections, attesting to the cross-disciplinary nature of the field. |
Contents
What I Have Learned | 3 |
CognitionSome Personal Histories with Pinkers | 23 |
Representations Psychological Reality and Beyond | 41 |
In Defense of Massive Modularity | 47 |
Is the Imagery Debate Over? If So What Was It About? | 59 |
Mental Models and Human Reasoning | 85 |
Is the Content of Experience the Same as the Content | 103 |
Introduction | 123 |
Counting in Animals and Humans | 279 |
On the Very Possibility of Discontinuities in Conceptual | 303 |
Continuity Competence and the Object Concept | 325 |
Of Acquired Expectations and Core | 341 |
What Infants Know about It and What | 363 |
On Becoming and Being Bilingual | 379 |
On Language Biology and Reductionism | 397 |
Whats So Special about Speech? | 417 |
Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences | 143 |
Four Decades of Rules and Associations or Whatever Happened | 157 |
The Roll of the Silly Ball | 181 |
Implications | 195 |
A Crosslinguistic Investigation of Determiner Production | 209 |
Frequency Effects in Language | 227 |
How to Study Development | 259 |
The Biological Foundations of Music | 435 |
The Literate Mind and the Universal Human Mind | 463 |
Perspectives on a Critical | 481 |
Where Were We? | 503 |
Short Biography of Jacques Mehler | 513 |
Afterword | 529 |
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Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler Jacques Mehler No preview available - 2001 |