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Author Thelen, Esther.

Title A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action / Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1994]
©1994

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 MELB  155.422235 The/Dsa  DUE 21-04-24
Description xxiii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Series MIT Press/Bradford Book series in cognitive psychology
MIT Press/Bradford Book series in cognitive psychology
Contents Pt. I. The Nature of Development: A Dynamic Approach. Ch. 1. Lessons from Learning to Walk. Ch. 2. The Crisis in Cognitive Development. Ch. 3. Dynamic Systems: Exploring Paradigms for Change. Ch. 4. Dynamic Principles of Development: Reinterpreting Learning to Walk -- Pt. II. Seeking Mechanisms of Change. Ch. 5. Dynamics of Neural Organization and Development. Ch. 6. Categories and Dynamic Knowledge. Ch. 7. The Dynamics of Selection in Human Infants -- Pt. III. Dynamics and the Origins of Knowledge. Ch. 8. The Context-Specific Origin of Knowledge. Ch. 9. Knowledge from Action: Exploration and Selection in Learning to Reach. Ch. 10. Real Time, Developmental Time, and Knowing: Explaining the A-Not-B Error. Ch. 11. Hard Problems: Toward a Dynamic Cognition
Analysis Children Cognition Development
Children Cognition Development
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-361) and indexes
Subject Cognition in infants.
Developmental psychobiology.
Motor ability in infants.
Perceptual-motor processes.
Cognition.
Child Development.
Child.
Infant.
Motor Skills.
Systems Theory.
Author Smith, Linda B.
LC no. 93006037
ISBN 0262200953
026270059X (paperback)