Two independent research communities have produced large bodies of data concerning
object representations: the community concerned with the infant's object concept and the …

Recent research suggests that one of the mechanisms that contribute to infants' acquisition
of their physical knowledge is the formation of event categories, such as occlusion and …

Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past
experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize …

How do children acquire the meaning of words? And why are words such as know harder for
learners to acquire than words such as dog or jump? We suggest that the chief limiting factor …

Four experiments investigated whether 9-month-old infants could use the presence of labels
to help them establish a representation of two distinct objects in a complex object …

An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively
and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues …

This chapter is a selective review of spatial development, stressing several points. First, we
suggest that spatial development can be usefully considered to have two strands:(a) the …

Four experiments investigated whether 12-month-old infants use perceptual property
information in a complex object individuation task, using the violation-of-expectancy looking …

Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of
disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the …

Two studies exploited a new manual search methodology to assess the bases on which 10-
to 12-month-olds individuate objects. Infants saw 1 or 2 objects placed inside an opaque …