Learning and the Infant Mind

by Amy Needham and Amanda Woodward

When asking how cognition comes to take its mature form, learning seems to be an obvious factor to consider. However, until quite recently, there has been very little contact between investigations of how infants learn and what infants know. For example, on the one hand, research efforts focused on infants' foundational conceptual knowledge-what they know about the physical permanence of objects, causal relations, and human intentions-often do not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0041VDV1E
• ISBN13: 9780195301151
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"