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The cognitive revolution in the 1950s and 1960s led researchers to view the human mind--like a computer--as an information-processing system that encodes, represents, and stores information and is constrained by limits on hardware (the brain) and software (learning strategies and rules). The emergence of new behavioral, computational, and neuroscience methodologies, has deeply expanded psychologists' understanding of the workings of the infant, child, and adult mind. One result is that research has focused on mechanisms of change, over developmental time, in the information-processing mind.
In this book, Lisa Oakes, Cara Cashon, Marianella Casasola, and David Rakison bring together the recent findings and theories about the origins and early development of the information-processing mind, and provide insight into the future directions in the study of infant perception and cognition. The contributors represent a wide-range of research areas in the study of infant perception and cognition, who emphasize the use of diverse methodological techniques to address key questions about development. Their chapters demonstrate how the combination of historical perspectives on the information-processing approach to cognition and recent advances in behavioral, computational, and neuroscience approaches to cognition has contributed to our understanding of how abilities ranging from visual attention to face processing to object categorization have developed during infancy. Across this broad range of topics, it is clear that much of our modern understanding of infant perceptual and cognitive development emerges from the foundation of classic information-processing models of development, such as that of Leslie B. Cohen (1991). The recent advances illustrated in this book show how researchers have built on this foundation to uncover the mechanisms that drive developmental change.
Contents
1. Varieties of Attention in Infancy
John Colombo, Leah Kapa, and Lori Curtendale
2. Infant Attention, Arousal, and the Brain
John E. Richards
3. A Constructivist View of Object Perception in Infancy
Scott Johnson
4. Development of Specialized Face Perception During Infancy: An Information-processing Perspective
Cara H. Cashon
5. The Role of Perceptual Processes in Infant Addition/Subtraction Experiments
Alan M. Slater, J. Gavin Bremner, Scott P. Johnson, and Rachel A. Hayes
6. Perceptual Constraints on Implicit Memory for Visual Features: Statistical Learning in Human Infants
Richard N. Aslin
7. Computational Modeling of Infant Concept Learning: The Developmental Shift from Features to Correlations
Thomas R. Shultz
8. Information Processing Approaches to Infants' Developing Representation of Dynamic Features
Kelly L. Madole, Lisa M. Oakes, and David H. Rakison
9. Infant Spatial Categorization from an Information Processing Approach
Marianella Casasola
10. The Role of Auditory Stimuli in Infant Categorization
Kim Plunkett
11. The Development of Categorization and Facial Knowledge: Implications for the Study of Autism
Lisa Newell, Catherine Best, Holly Gastgeb, Keiran Rump, and Mark Strauss
12. Emerging Competence with Symbolic Artifacts: Implications for the Study of Categorization and Concept Development
Barbara A. Younger and Kathy Johnson
