Bücher der Reihe OXFORD SERIES IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Addressing the issues surrounding essentialism from the perspective of developmental psychology, this book examines children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. Synthesizing 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, it is aimed at developmental, cognitive and social psychologists, and others.

This book offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts. Drawing on extensive research, Mandler describes the development of preverbal concept formation, inductive inference, and recall, and explains how these processes form the conceptual basis for language and adult thought.

New in paperback- A transformative book on the way we think about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.