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Author Mehler, Jacques.

Title What infants know : the new cognitive science of early development / Jacques Mehler and Emmanuel Dupoux ; translated by Patsy Southgate.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1994.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  155.4223 M498W    Check Shelf
Description ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-205) and index.
Contents 1. Explaining Our Behavior. The Psychology of Everyman and Everywoman. The Human Mechanism. Learning to Be Human. From Newborn to Human Nature -- 2. Seeing and Hearing. Is the Newborn Blind? Is the Newborn Deaf? Categories -- 3. The World and its Objects. Space. Objects -- 4. Self and Others. The Body and Other Persons. The Thinking of Others -- 5. The Biological Foundations of Language. The Chimpanzee that Babbled. Language and the Limitations of Perception. The Organ of Language. How Babies Access Language -- Conclusion: Human Nature and the Cognitive Sciences. The End of Vitalism. The Return of Rationalism and the Permanence of Humanity.
Subject Newborn infants -- Psychology.
Genetic psychology.
Cognition in children.
Indexed Term Babies Cognition Development
Subject Infant, Newborn -- psychology.
Child Development.
Cognition.
Genetics, Behavioral.
Infant.
Added Author Dupoux, Emmanuel.
Added Title NaƮtre humain. English
ISBN 1557863695 hardcover alkaline paper
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