Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind / / Juan Carlos Gómez.
What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gómez identifies evolutionary resemblances—and differences—between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are bes...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Developing Child
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Hands, Faces, and Infancy: The Origins of Primate Minds
- 2 Perceiving a World of Objects
- 3 Practical Intelligence: Doing Things with Objects
- 4 Understanding Relations between Objects: Causality
- 5 The Logic of Object Relations
- 6 Objects in the World
- 7 Faces, Gestures, and Calls
- 8 Understanding Other Subjects
- 9 Social Learning, Imitation, and Culture
- 10 Consciousness and Language
- 11 Learning from Comparisons: The Evolution of Cognitive Developments
- References
- Index