The Origins of Object Knowledge
Bruce M. Hood & Laurie R. Santos (eds.)
Oxford University Press (2009)
Abstract
Do humans start life with the capacity to detect and mentally represent the objects around them? Or is our object knowledge instead derived only as the result of prolonged experience with the external world? Are we simply able to perceive objects by watching their actions in the world, or do we have to act on objects ourselves in order to learn about their behavior? Finally, do we come to know all aspects of objects in the same way, or are some aspects of our object understanding more epistemologically privileged than others? "The Origins of Object Knowledge" presents the most up-to-date survey of the research into how the developing human mind understands the world of objects and their properties. It presents some of the best findings from leading research groups in the field of object representation approached from the perspective of developmental and comparative psychology. Topics covered in the book all address some aspect of what objects are from a psychological perspective; how humans and animals conceive what they are made of; what properties they possess; how we count them and how we categorize them; even how the difference between animate and inanimate objects leads to different expectations. The chapters also cover the variety of methodologies and techniques that must be used to study infants, young children, and non-human primates and the value of combining approaches to discovering what each group knows. Bringing together leading researchers, communicating the most contemporary and exciting findings within the field of object representation, this volume will be an important work in the cognitive sciences, and of interest to those across the fields of developmental and comparative psychology.Call number
BF316.6.O75 2009
ISBN(s)
9780199216895 0199216894
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Chapters
Young infants' expectations about self-propelled objects.Renée Baillargeon, Sylvia di WuYuan, Jie Li & Yuyan Luo
Young infants' expectations about self-propelled objects.Renée Baillargeon, Di Wu, Sylvia Yuan, Jie Li & Luo & Yuyan
A comparative approach to understanding human numerical cognition.Kerry E. Jordan & Brannon & M. Elizabeth
Do the same principles constrain persisting object representations in infant cognition and adult perception?: The cases of continuity and cohesion.Erik W. Cheries, Stephen R. Mitroff, Karen Wynn & Brian J. Scholl
Do the same principles constrain persisting object representation in infant cognition and adult perception? The cases of continuity and cohesion.Erik W. Cheries, Stephen R. Mitroff, Karen Wynn & Scholl & J. Brian
Beyond 'what' and 'how many': Capacity, complexity and resolution of infants' object representations.Jennifer M. Zosh & Feigenson & Lisa
Spatiotemporal priority as a fundamental principle of object persistence.Jonathan I. Flombaum, Brian J. Scholl & Laurie R. Santos
Spatiotemporal priority as a fundamental principle of object persistence.Jonathan I. Flombaum, Brian J. Scholl & Santos & R. Laurie
Clever eyes and stupid hands: current thoughts on why dissociations of apparent knowledge occur on solidity tasks.Nathalia Gjersoe & Hood & Bruce
'Multiple object tracking in infants': four (or so) ways of being discrete.Marian L. Chen & Leslie & M. Alan
The developmental origins of animal and artefact concepts.Kristin Shutts, Lori Markson & Spelke & S. Elizabeth
The developmental origins of animal and artifact concepts.K. Shutts, L. Markson, E. S. Spelke, B. Hood & L. Santos
Induction, overhypotheses, and the shape bias: Some arguments and evidence for rational constructivism.Fei Xu, Kathryn Dewar & Amy Perfors
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