The Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual Thought

Contents......Page 12
Concepts Within the Larger System......Page 18
Techniques to Study Concept Formation in Infancy......Page 24
Going Beyond Piaget......Page 26
What a Sensorimotor Infant Would Be Like......Page 32
Piaget’s View of Image Formation......Page 37
Piaget’s Theory of the Transition to Conceptual Thought......Page 40
Motor Incompetence Versus Conceptual Incompetence......Page 49
On Parsimony and Related Matters......Page 56
Procedural Versus Declarative Knowledge......Page 60
Implicit Versus Explicit Learning......Page 66
Nativism Versus Empiricism......Page 74
Perceptual Meaning Analysis......Page 81
Image-Schemas as a Conceptual Format......Page 92
Concepts of Kinds and Identification of Kinds......Page 104
Examples of Image-Schemas......Page 108
Some Uses of Image-Schemas in Infancy......Page 130
A Critique of the Notion of Basic-Level Concepts......Page 136
Basic-Level Categorization as a Part of Perceptual Categorization......Page 150
There Are Multiple Forms of Categorization......Page 157
Global Concepts......Page 162
A Dissociation Between Global Concepts and Detailed Perceptual Schemas......Page 173
Interpretation Versus Identification......Page 181
Inductive Generalization......Page 186
How to Get Preverbal Children to Talk to You......Page 203
Why Infants Don’t Use “Basic-Level” Concepts for Inductions......Page 208
Summary of Some Differences Between Percepts and Concepts......Page 210
The Initial Organization of the Conceptual System......Page 216
Breakdown of the Conceptual System......Page 223
Conceptual Growth Versus Conceptual Reorganization......Page 228
10. Recall of the Past......Page 236
Recall of Absent Objects......Page 238
Recall Versus Recognition of Events......Page 242
Deferred Imitation of Events......Page 245
What Deferred Imitation Measures......Page 248
The Nature of Preverbal Recall and Infantile Amnesia......Page 254
Object Concepts and Words......Page 258
Relational Concepts and Words......Page 263
Preverbal Spatial Concepts and Semantic Primitives......Page 268
Some Preverbal Spatial Concepts: The Case of In, On, and Fit Together......Page 280
Bootstrapping Into Syntax With Image-Schemas......Page 289
12. Consciousness and Conclusions......Page 298
Conscious and Nonconscious Processes in Memory......Page 301
Conscious and Nonconscious Processes in Categorization......Page 306
Conscious and Nonconscious Processes in Language Acquisition......Page 310
A Few Final Words......Page 315
Notes......Page 320
References......Page 326
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