Human adults appear different from other animals in their ability to form abstract mental representations that go beyond perceptual similarity. In short, they can conceptualize the world. This book brings together leading psychologists and neuroscientists to tackle the age-old puzzle of what might be unique about human concepts. INDICE: Part One; 1: Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn, and Stephen E.G. Lea: Where do concepts come from?; 2: Gregory Murphy: What are categories and concepts; 3: James Close, Ulrike Hahn, Carl Hodgets and Emmanuel M. Pothos: Rules and similarity in adult concept learning; 4: Brad Love and Marc Tomlinson: Mechanistic Models of Associative and Rule-based Category Learning; 5: F. Gregory Ashby and Matthew J. Crossley: The Neurobiology of Categorization; 6: Sandra Waxman and Susan Gelman: Different kinds of concepts and different kinds ofwords: What words do for human cognition; 7: Norbert Ross and Michael Tidwell: Concepts and culture; Part Two; 8: Olga Lazareva, Edward Wasserman: Categorylearning and concept learning in birds; 9: Stephen E.G. Lea: Concept learningin nonprimate mammals: In search of evidence; 10: Michele Fabre-Thorpe: Concepts in Monkeys; 11: Tetsuro Matsuzawa: Cognitive development in chimpanzees: Atrade-off between memory and abstraction?; 12: Barbara Younger: Categorization and concept formation in human infants; 13: Susan Carey: The making of an abstract concept: Natural number; 14: James Hampton: Concepts in Human Adults; Part Three; 15: Frank Keil and George E. Newman: Darwin and Development: Why ontogeny does not recapitualte phylogeny for human concepts; 16: Linda Smith: More than concepts: How multiple integrations make human intelligence; 17: Michael Corballis and Thomas Suddendorf: The Evolution of concepts: A timely look; Part Four; 18: Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn and Stephen E.G. Lea: The Makingof Human Concepts: A Final Look
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954922-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés