The Foundations of Mind Origins of Conceptual Thought

includes index and biblioraphy

1. How to Build a Baby: Prologue 3 Concepts Within the Larger System 3 Techniques to Study Concept Formation in Infancy 9 Going Beyond Piaget 11 2. Piaget`s Sensoriniotor Infant 17 What a Sensorimotor Infant Would Be Like 17 Piaget`s View of Image Formation 22 Piaget`s Theory of the Transition to Conceptual Tliought 25 Motor Incompetence Versus Conceptual Incompetence 34 3. Kinds of Representation: Seeing and Thinking 41 On Parsimony and Related Matters 41 Procedural Versus Declarative Knowledge 45 Implicit Versus Explicit Learning 51 4. Perceptual Meaning Analysis and Image-Schemas: The Infant as Interpreter 59 Nativism Versus Empiricism 59 Perceptual Meaning Analysis 66 Image-Schemas as a Conceptual Format 77 Concepts of Kinds and Identification of Kinds 89 5. Some Image-Schemas and Their Functions 93 Examples of Image-Schemas 93 Some Uses of Image-Schemas in Infancy 115 6. Some Differences Between Percepts and Concepts: The Case of the Basic Level 121 A Critique of the Notion of Basic-Level Concepts 121 Basic-Level Categorization as a Part of Perceptual Categorization There Are Multiple Forms of Categorization 142 7. Some Preverbal Concepts 147 Global Concepts 147 A Dissociation Between Global Concepts and Detailed Perceptual Schemas 158 Interpretation Versus Identification 166 8. Conceptual Categories as Induction Machines 171 Inductive Generalization 171 How to Get Preverbal Children to Talk to You 188 Why Infants Don`t Use "Basic-Level" Concepts for Inductions 19 Summary of Some Differences Between Percepts and Concepts 195 9. Continuity in the Conceptual System: Acquisition, Breakdown, and Reorganization The Initial Organization of the Conceptual System 201 Breakdown of the Conceptual System 208 Conceptual Growth Versus Conceptual Reorganization 213 10. Recall of the Past 221 Recall of Absent Objects 223 Recall Versus Recognition of Events 227 Deferred Imitation of Events 230 What Deferred Imitation Measures 233 The Nature of Preverbal Recall and Infantile Amnesia 239 11. Language Acquisition 243 Object Concepts and Words 243 Relational Concepts and Words 248 Preverbal Spatial Concepts and Semantic Primitives 253 Some Preverbal Spatial Concepts: The Case of In, On,and Fit Together 265 Bootstrapping Into Syntax With Image-Schemas 274