Infant Perception: From Sensation to Cognition (Child Psychology) (v. 2) - Hardcover

Cohen, Leslie B.; Salapatek, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0121786021 ISBN 13: 9780121786021

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1975

Synopsis

Infant From Sensation to Cognition, Volume Perception of Space, Speech, and Sound covers comprehensive programmatic examinations, which are arranged along a continuum from basic sensory and neurophysiological functioning to information processing and memory.This volume is organized into two parts encompassing six chapters, and begins with the difficulties priorresearch has had in assessing infant perception of depth or space. The next chapters provide a link between infants' perception of space and their perception of objects and evaluate both psychometric studies of object concept development and studies focusing specifically on Piaget's theory. These topics are followed by discussions of the infant's development of the concept of self, and that concept is used to explain the infant's perception of other persons. The final chapters deal with the infant vision and audition. These chapters specifically describe the developmental anatomy of the auditory pathway and the electrophysiological functioning and capacity. A series of studies on the infant's receptiveness for the segmental units of speech, the ability to perceive phonemic feature contrasts, and the manner in which this perception occurs is also provided.This book will prove useful to developmental psychologists and biologists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0121786021
• ISBN 13: 9780121786021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1