6" x 9-1/4", xiii + 369pp. Gathered and glued signatures in laminated printed card stock cover. Minor shelf wear, edge wear. Minor soiling to edges of book block. Binding has a slight forward lean but spine remains uncreased. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Emergent Forms: Origins and Early Development of Human Action and Perception

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0195095022

ISBN 13

9780195095029

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very Good

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While it is often assumed that behavioral development must be based upon both physical law and the biological principles of morphogenesis and selection, forging a link between these phenomena has remained an elusive goal. Now in Emergent Forms, psychologist Eugene C. Goldfield offers an exciting new theoretical framework--based, in part, on the concept of self-organization--that promises to aid researchers in their quest to discover the underlying origins and processes of behavioral development. Addressing the question of how familiar human functional acts--such as eating, walking, manipulating objects, and smiling--emerge during infancy, Goldfield proposes that during perceptually guided spontaneous activity a variety of biodynamic devices for doing different kinds of work are assembled and adapted to specific tasks. Throughout, the theory is examined in the context of development, and extended to atypical development and other domains, such as cognition and language. The author also addresses many long-standing issues in behavioral development, including the apparent disappearance of so-called primitive behaviors, the emergence of new skills, and the role of the caregiver in skill acquisition. The author concludes his work by discussing how the implications of this research can be applied to understanding abnormal development in children who are motor impaired. Interdisciplinary in scope and accessible to a broad range of readers, Emergent Forms will fascinate students and researchers of ecological, developmental, evolutionary, and cognitive psychology.

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Eugene C. Goldfield is at Children's Hospital.

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