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1 online resource (442 pages) |
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Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Event Representations Then, Now, and Next; PART I: ESTABLISHING EVENT REPRESENTATIONS; 2 Implicit Processes in the Development of Causal Knowledge: A Connectionist Model of the Use of Humean Cues; 3 Development of Sensitivity to Spatial and Temporal Information; 4 Revealing the Representation: Evidence From Children's Reports of Events; PART II: EVENT UNDERSTANDING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD; 5 Goal-Based Organization of Event Memory in Toddlers |
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6 Saying Is Revealing: Verbal Expression of Event Memory in the Transition From Infancy to Early Childhood7 Narrating and Representing Experience: Preschoolers' Developing Autobiographical Accounts; 8 Children's Understanding, Evaluation, and Memory for Emotional Events; 9 Narrating, Representing, and Remembering Event Sequences; 10 Children's Memory for Televised Events; PART III: EVENT UNDERSTANDING IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS; 11 Comprehending Characters' Emotions: The Role of Event Categories and Causal Connectivity |
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12 Discovering the Cement of the Universe: The Development of Event Comprehension From Childhood to Adulthood13 Understanding the Causal Structure of Narrative Events; 14 A "Global-Coherence" View of Event Comprehension: Inferential Processing as Question Answering; 15 Building the Bridges: The Development of Event Comprehension and Representation; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges. At the most basic level, it concerns the bridges that individuals build to understand the events that they experience--the bridges that connect the events in the mind's eye. At another level, it is about bridges that interconnect findings and theoretical frameworks concerning event comprehension and representation in different age groups, ranging from infancy to adulthood. Finally, it is about building bridges between researchers who share interests, yet may not ordinarily even be aware of each other's work. The success of |
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Print version record |
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Comprehension in children.
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Comprehension.
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Mental representation.
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Schemas
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Comprehension
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Comprehension in children
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Mental representation
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bauer, Patricia J
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Bourg, Tammy
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| ISBN |
9781135449827 |
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1135449821 |
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