What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1

What Babies Know

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What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1

What Babies Know

$88.00
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What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers to this question shed light not only on infants but on children and adults in all cultures, because the core knowledge possessed by infants never goes away. Instead, it underlies the unspoken, common sense knowledge of people of all ages, in all societies. By studying babies, researchers gain insights into infants themselves, into older children's prodigious capacities for learning, and into some of the unconscious assumptions that guide our thoughts and actions as adults.

In this major new work, Elizabeth Spelke shares these insights by distilling the findings from research in developmental, comparative, and cognitive psychology, with excursions into studies of animal cognition in psychology and in systems and cognitive neuroscience, and studies in the computational cognitive sciences. Weaving across these disciplines, she paints a picture of what young infants know, and what they quickly come to learn, about objects, places, numbers, geometry, and people's actions, social engagements, and mental states.

A landmark publication in the developmental literature, the book will be essential for students and researchers across the behavioral, brain, and cognitive sciences.

Book Details

ISBN
9780190618247
Binding
Hardcover
Authors
Elizabeth S Spelke
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published Date
August 17, 2022
Language
English
Pages
560
Physical Info
1.21 in H x 9.35 in L x 6.43 in W (2.42 lb)

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