How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood - Hardcover

Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew; Kuhl, Patricia K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297842277 ISBN 13: 9780297842279

Publisher: Orion, 2000

Synopsis

Learning begins in the first days of life. Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally and intellectually, and are beginning to realize that from birth babies already know a staggering amount about the world around them. In the first book of its kind for a popular audience, three leading US scientists draw on twenty-five years of research in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neuroscience to reveal what babies know and how they learn it.

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Learning begins in the first days of life. Scientists are now beginning to realise that from birth babies already know a staggering amount about the world around them. In the first book of its kind for a popular audience, three leading scientists draw on 25 years of research in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neurosciences to reveal what babies know and how they learn it.

Book Description:

A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0297842277
• ISBN 13: 9780297842279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320