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The Emerging Spatial Mind.
Title:
The Emerging Spatial Mind.
Author:
Plumert, Jodie M.
ISBN:
9780195345940
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (429 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Remembering Where Things Are -- 1. Using Spatial Categories to Reason about Location -- 2. Organism-Environment Interaction in Spatial Development: Explaining Categorical Bias in Memory for Location -- 3. Explaining the Development of Spatial Reorientation: Modularity-Plus-Language versus the Emergence of Adaptive Combination -- 4. Using Locomotion to Update Spatial Orientation: What Changes with Learning and Development? -- 5. Commentary: The Nature and Development of Spatial Reference Systems -- Part II. Thinking and Talking about Spatial Relations -- 6. On the Infant's Prelinguistic Conception of Spatial Relations: Three Developmental Trends and Their Implications for Spatial Language Learning -- 7. Adapting Spatial Concepts for Different Languages: From Preverbal Event Schemas to Semantic Categories -- 8. The Body and Children's Word Learning -- 9. Developmental Changes in Children's Understanding of Maps: What, When, and How? -- 10. Map Use and the Development of Spatial Cognition -- 11. Commentary: Linking Internal Representations to the External World via Spatial Relations -- Part III. Mapping the Neuropsychological Bases of Spatial Development -- 12. Effects of Blindness and Deafness on the Development of Spatial Perception and Cognition -- 13. Explaining Selective Spatial Breakdown in Williams Syndrome: Four Principles of Normal Spatial Development and Why They Matter -- 14. What Does Theoretical Neuroscience Have to Offer the Study of Behavioral Development? Insights from a Dynamic Field Theory of Spatial Cognition -- 15. Commentary: Specificity, Mechanisms, and Timing in the Study of Spatial Cognition -- Part IV. Conclusions -- 16. What Makes Thinking about Development So Hard? -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R.

S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This edited volume brings together the leading scholars from the field of spatial cognitive development to examine how the spatial mind emerges from its humble origins in infancy to its mature, flexible, and skilled adult form. Each chapter presents cutting-edge research and theory that asks: 1) What changes in spatial cognition occur over development? and 2) How do these changes come about? The authors provide conceptual as well as formal theoretical accounts of developmental process at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., genes, neurons, behaviors, social interactions), providing a contemporary overview of general mechanisms of cognitive change. In addition, commentators place these advances in our understanding of spatial cognitive development within the field of spatial cognition more generally.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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