The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition : Thinking Through Space Hardback
Edited by Kelly S. (Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Developme Mix, Linda B. (Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Development Labo Smith, Michael (Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Indiana University) Gasser
Part of the Explorations in Language and Space series
Hardback
Description
This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning.
It proceeds from the notion that cognition in real time, developmental time, and over evolutionary time occurs in space, and that the physical properties of space may provide insights into basic cognitive processes, including memory, attention, action, and perception.
It looks at how physical space and landmarks are used in cognitive representations and serve as the basis of human cognition in a range of core mechanisms to index memories and ground meanings that are not themselves explicitly about space.
The editors have brought together experimental psychologists, computer scientists, robotocists, linguists, and researchers in child language in order to consider the nature and applications of this research and in particular its implications for understanding the processes involved in language acquisition.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:328 pages, numerous Tables, Line Drawings, Diagrams
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780199553242
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:328 pages, numerous Tables, Line Drawings, Diagrams
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/12/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199553242
