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1. Development and Brain Systems in Autism

   Edited by Marcel Adam Just, Kevin A. Pelphrey

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder. A number of themes organize major developments and emerging areas in autism: Cognitive and neural systems development: how autism arises in the behavior and...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action

   Edited by Roberta L. Klatzky, Brian MacWhinney, Marlene Behrmann

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the...

   Published June 19th 2008 by Psychology Press
3. Thinking With Data

   Edited by Marsha C. Lovett, Priti Shah

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. The Symposium was motivated by the confluence of three emerging trends: (1) the increasing need for people to think effectively with data at work, at school, and in everyday life, (2)...

   Published May 21st 2007 by Psychology Press
4. Building Object Categories in Developmental Time

   Edited by Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, David H. Rakison

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related...

   Published March 1st 2005 by Psychology Press
5. Perceptual Organization in Vision

   Behavioral and Neural Perspectives

   Edited by Ruth Kimchi, Marlene Behrmann, Carl R. Olson

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   Understanding visual perceptual organization remains a challenge for vision science. Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives explores ideas emanating from behavioral, developmental, neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and computational approaches to the problem of...

   Published June 30th 2003 by Psychology Press
6. Mechanisms of Cognitive Development

   Behavioral and Neural Perspectives

   Edited by James L. McClelland, Robert Siegler

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those...

   Published April 11th 2001 by Psychology Press
7. Cognition and Instruction

   Twenty-five Years of Progress

   Edited by Sharon M. Carver, David Klahr

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   This volume is based on papers presented at the 30th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. This particular symposium was conceived in reference to the 1974 symposium entitled Cognition and Instruction. In the 25 years since that symposium, reciprocal relationships have been forged between...

   Published March 31st 2001 by Psychology Press
8. Cognition and Instruction

   Twenty-five Years of Progress

   Edited by Sharon M. Carver, David Klahr

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   This volume is based on papers presented at the 30th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. This particular symposium was conceived in reference to the 1974 symposium entitled Cognition and Instruction. In the 25 years since that symposium, reciprocal relationships have been forged between...

   Published March 31st 2001 by Psychology Press
9. Mechanisms of Cognitive Development

   Behavioral and Neural Perspectives

   Edited by James L. McClelland, Robert Siegler

   Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

   This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those...

   Published February 28th 2001 by Psychology Press
10. The Emergence of Language

    Edited by Brian MacWhinney

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these apparent alternatives been sharper than in the study of language acquisition. However, as more is learned about the details of...

    Published March 14th 1999 by Psychology Press