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Title The Epigenesis of mind : essays on biology and cognition / edited by Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman
Published Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991

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Description xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The Jean Piaget Symposium series
Jean Piaget Symposium series.
Contents I. Biological contributions to cognition -- 1. Lessons from animal learning for the study of cognitive development / C.R. Gallistel, Ann L. Brown, Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman, and Frank C. Keil -- 2. The instinct to learn / Peter Marler -- 3. Neuropsychological insights into the meaning of object concept development / Adele Diamond -- 4. Contrasting concepts of the critical period for language / Elissa L. Newport -- II. Innate knowledge and beyond -- 5. Physical knowledge in infancy : reflections on Piaget's theory / Elizabeth S. Spelke -- 6. Beyond modularity : innate constraints and developmental change / Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- 7. Constraining nativist inferences about cognitive capacities / Kurt W. Fischer and Thomas Bidell -- 8. The emergence of theoretical beliefs as constraints on concepts / Frank C. Keil -- 9. Knowledge acquisition : enrichment or conceptual change? / Susan Carey -- 10. Epigenetic foundations of knowledge structures : initial and transcendent constructions / Rochel Gelman
Notes Chiefly papers presented at the symposium, Biology and knowledge: structural constraints on development, held in 1988, sponsored by the Jean Piaget Society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Cognition -- Congresses.
Cognition -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.
Cognition -- Physiological aspects.
Cognition.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Learning -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.
Learning, Psychology of -- Congresses.
Knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses.
Learning, Psychology of -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.
Learning, Psychology of -- Physiological aspects.
Learning, Psychology of.
Psychobiology -- Congresses.
Psychobiology.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Carey, Susan.
Gelman, Rochel.
Jean Piaget Society. Symposium (1988 : Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences?)
LC no. 90049812
ISBN 0805804382