| Description |
xiv, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Toward a topography of mind : an introduction to domain specificity / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman -- The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations / Dan Sperber -- The organization of lexical knowledge in the brain : evidence from category- and modality-specific deficits / Alfonso Caramazza ... [et al.] -- Origins of domain specificity : the evolution of functional organization / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- ToMM, ToBY, and Agency : core architecture and domain specificity / Alan M. Leslie -- Moral belief : form versus context / David Premack and Ann James Premack -- Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change / Susan Carey and Elizabeth Spelke -- Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer? / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- The birth and nurturance of concepts by domains : the origins of concepts of living things / Frank C. Keil -- The theory theory / Alison Gopnik and Henry M. Wellman -- Thinking by children and scientists : false analogies and neglected similarities / Paul L. Harris -- Core domains versus scientific theories : evidence from systematics and Itza-Maya folkbiology / Scott Atran -- Essentialist beliefs in children : the acquisition of concepts and theories / Susan A. Gelman, John D. Coley, and Gail M. Gottfried -- First principles can support both universal and culture-specific learning about number and music / Rochel Gelman and Kimberly Brenneman -- Cognitive constraints on cultural representations : natural ontologies and religious ideas / Pascal Boyer -- Universal and culture-specific properties of children's mental models of the earth / Stella Vosniadou -- Cognitive domains and the structure of the lexicon : the case of the emotions / Anna Wierzbicka -- Teachers' models of children's minds and learning / Sidney Strauss and Tamar Shilony -- Situated rationalism : biological and social preparation for learning / Lauren B. Resnick |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Cognition and culture.
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Human information processing.
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Schemas (Psychology)
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| Author |
Gelman, Susan A.
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Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.
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| LC no. |
93003812 |
| ISBN |
0521419662 |
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0521429935 (paperback) |
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