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9780199553242

The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition Thinking Through Space

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199553242

  • ISBN10:

    0199553246

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-02-28
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning. It proceeds from the notion that cognition in real time, developmental time, and over evolutionary time occurs in space, and that the physical properties

Author Biography


Kelly S. Mix is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory at Michigan State University. She is the co-author, with J. Huttenlocher and S. C. Levine, of Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood (OUP 2002). Linda B. Smith is Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory at Indiana University. She has published widely on cognition and language acquisition. Michael Gasser is Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He has published widely on cognition and language acquisition. S. Mix is Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory at Michigan State University. She is the co-author, with J. Huttenlocher and S. C. Levine, of Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood (OUP USA 2002).

Table of Contents

Thinking Through Space
Minds in Space
Language is Spatial, Not Special: On the Demise of the Symbolic Approximation Hypothesis
Spatial Tools for Mathematical Thought
Time, Motion, and Meaning: The Experiential Basis of Abstract Thought
From Embodiment to Abstract Thought
Perspectives on Spatial Development
It's in the Eye of the Beholder: Spatial Language and Spatial Memory Use the Same Perceptual Reference Frames
Tethering to the Word
Encoding Space in Spatial Language
Using Space to Ground Language
Objects in Space and Mind: From Reaching to Words
The Role of the Body in Infant Language Learning
Talk About Motion: The Semantic Representation of Verbs
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