The Development Of Sensory, Motor And Cognitive Capacities In Early Infancy: From Sensation To Cognition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863775128 ISBN 13: 9780863775123

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Research on the development of human infants has revealed remarkable capacities in recent years. Instead of stressing the limitations of the newborn, the modern approach is now more optimistically based on an assessment of the adaptive capabilities of the infant. Innate endowment, coupled with interaction with the physical and social environment, enables a developmental transition from processes deeply rooted in early perception and action to the cognitive and language abilities typical of the toddler.; This book reviews a number of issues in early human development. It includes a reconceptualization of the role of perception at the origins of development, a reconciliation of psychophysical and ecological approaches to early face perception, and building bridges between biological and psychological aspects of development in terms of brain structure and function. Topics covered include basic exploratory processes of early visual systems in early perception and action; face perception in newborns, species typical aspects of human communication, imitation, perception of the phonetic structure of speech, origins of the pointing gesture, handedness origins and development, theoretical contributions on perception and cognition, implicit and explicit knowledge in babies; sensory-motor coordination and cognition, information processing and cognition, perception, habituation and the development of intelligence from infancy.

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George Butterworth University of Sussex, Francesca Simion

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863775128
• ISBN 13: 9780863775123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Butterworth George, Simion Francesca