Language, brain, and cognitive development : essays in honor of Jacques Mehler

Dupoux, Emmanuel. (Added Author). Mehler, Jacques (Added Author).

Summary: Interdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later, cognitive science is a flourishing academic field. The contributions to this collection, written in honor of Jacques Mehler, a founder of the field of psycholinguistics, assess the progress of cognitive science. The questions addressed include: What have we learned or not learned about language, brain, and cognition? Where are we now? Where have we failed? Where have we succeeded? The book is organized into four sections in addition to the introduction: thought, language, neuroscience, and brain and biology. Some chapters cut across several sections, attesting to the cross-disciplinary nature of the field.

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ISBN: 9780262041973
ISBN: 0262041979
ISBN: 9780585446554
ISBN: 0585446555
ISBN: 0262272032
ISBN: 9780262272032
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Copyright: ©2001

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Bradford book." "Short biography of Jacques Mehler": pages [513]-527.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Portrait of a "classical" cognitive scientist : what i have learned from Jacques Mehler / by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini -- 2. Cogniuith Pinker's appendix) / by Thomas G. Bever, Susan Franck, John Morton and Steven Pinker -- 3. In defense of massive modularity / by Dan Sperber -- 4. Is the imagery debate over? if so, what was it about? / by Zenon Pylyshyn -- 5. Mental models and human reasoning / by Philip N. Johnson-Laird -- 6. Is the content of experience the same as the content of thought? / by Ned Block -- 7. About parameters, prominence, and bootstrapping / by Marina Nespor -- 8. Some sentences on our consciousness of sentences / by Thomas G. Bever and David J. Townsend -- 9. Four decades of rules and associations, or whatever happened to the past tense debate? / by Steven Pinker -- 10. The roll of the silly ball / by Anne Cutler, James M. McQueen, Dennis Norris and A. Somejuan -- 11. Phonotactic constraints shape speech perception : implications for sublexical and lexical processing / by Juan Segui, Ulricht Frauenfelder and Pierre Hallé -- 12. A crosslinguistic investigation of determiner production / by Alfonso Caranaza [and others] -- 13. Now you see it, now you don't : frequency effects in language production / by Merrill Garrett -- 14. Relations between speech production and speech perception : some behavioral and neurological observations / by Willem J.M. Levelt -- 15. Why we need cognition : cause and developmental disorder / by John Morton and Uta Frith -- 16. Counting in animals and humans / by Rochel Gelman and Sara Cordes -- 17. On the very possibility of discontinuities in conceptual development / by Susan Carey -- 18. Continuity, competence, and the object concept / by Elizabeth Spelke and Susan Hespos -- 19. Infants' physical knowledge : of acquired expectations and core principles / by Renée Baillargeon -- 20. Learning language : what infants know about i, and what we don't know about that / by Peter W. Jusczyk -- 21. On becoming and being bilingual / by Nária Sebastán-Gallés and Laura Bosch -- 22. Cognitive neuroscience : the synthesis of mind and brain / by Michael I. Posner -- 23. What's so special about speech? / by Marc Hauser -- 24. The biological foundations of music / by Isabelle Peretz -- 25. Brain and sounds : lessons from "dyslexic" rodents / by Albert M. Galaburda -- 26. The literate mind and the universal human mind / by José Morais and Régine Kolinsky -- 27. Critical thinking about critical periods : Perspectives on a Critical Period for Language Acquisition / by Elissa L. Newport, Daphne Bavelier and Helen J. Neville -- 28. Cognition and neuroscience : where were we? / by John C. Marshall.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.