1st Edition

Knowledge and Representation

Edited By Beatrice de Gelder Copyright 1982
232 Pages
by Routledge

Mental representations are among the most mysterious entities involved in cognition. How is the brain’s model of the world formed, how is it used, how is it corrected, how essential is it to our knowledge of the world? Psychologists have been trying to comprehend the nature of these internal mechanisms by models of their own, which fall into three main categories: computational, biological, and... Read more

Introduction
Beatrice de Gelder

1. On Fodor on cognitive development
Robin N. Campbell

2. Imitation, knowledge and representation
Beatrice de Gelder

3. On the representations of representations and on what happens to them
J.B. Deregowski

4. Modifications in children’s representational systems and levels of accessing knowledge
Annette Karmiloff-Smith

5. Discursive representation in infancy
Alan M. Leslie

6. The early stages of communicative and linguistic development: underlying processes
Andrew Lock

7. The problem of imagery and spatial development in the blind
Susanna Millar

8. Spatial cognition: the mental representation of objects and forms
David R. Olson and Ellen Bialystok

9. A note on representationalsim
Herman Parret

10. Conversation and intelligence
Jay F. Rosenberg

11. Depths of knowledge
Roger C. Schank

12. Attributing knowledge to young children
Paul Van Geert

13. The nature and development of the kinetic representational system
J.M. Van Meel

Biography

Beatrice de Gelder is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Neuroscience and PsychologyHer research interests include behavioral and neural emotion processing from facial and bodily expressions, multisensory perception and interaction between auditory and visual processes, and nonconscious perception in neurological patients.