Desert island books

[Gary Marcus]

Or she might consider Mark Baker's The Atoms of Language, Paul  
Bloom's Descartes Baby, Alison Gopnik et al's The Scientist in the  
Crib, Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, or my more biologically- 
oriented The Birth of the Mind (all of which are excerpted in The  
Norton Psychology Reader).

Gary


On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Ann Dowker wrote:

> Well, I assume that she might want to study their number concepts
> too, in which case I can also be unbiased, and suggest: Dowker, A.
> (2005): Individual Differences in Arithmetic. Hove: Psychology Press.
>
> My less unbiased suggestions include Dorothy Bishop's "Uncommon
> Understanding"; and Shirley Heath's 1983 classic "Ways With Words".
> And, for cognitive development, Robert Siegler's "Emerging Minds".
>
> Ann
>
> In message <C018F03B.D989%k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk> Katie Alcock  
> <k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
>> This message is for dev-europe list members.
>> Details of list are at
>> http://deveurope.com/mailinglist/
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> (Cross-posted to dev-europe and info-childes as it seems  
>> appropriate to
>> both).
>>
>> A while back I was doing fieldwork in Kenya and asked for input on  
>> something
>> from a mailing list, and I happened to have with me Brown (1973),  
>> which
>> turned out to be very helpful.  Someone commented that this would  
>> teach us
>> all that wherever you go you should take your copy of Brown (1973).
>>
>> I have a PhD student who is going to be going to Indonesia to  
>> develop and
>> supervise the administration of tests for a study on the impact of  
>> maternal
>> micronutrient supplementation on preschool language and cognitive
>> development.  If you were going to a desert island (Lombok is not  
>> a desert,
>> but it is fairly isolated) what books would you take with you?
>>
>> I'm thinking perhaps something on language development, something on
>> cognitive development, and something on test construction?
>>
>> Any other categories? I don't know how much room she'll have in her
>> suitcase! Votes for classics versus the latest up-to-date  
>> specialist volume?
>>
>>
>> As usual will summarise and inform the list...
>>
>> Katie Alcock
>>
>>
>> Katie Alcock, DPhil
>> Lecturer
>> Department of Psychology
>> University of Lancaster
>> Fylde College
>> Lancaster LA1 4YF
>> Tel 01524 593833
>> Fax 01524 593744
>> Web http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/KatieAlcock.html
>>
>>
>>
> In message <C018F03B.D989%k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk> Katie Alcock  
> <k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
>> This message is for dev-europe list members.
>> Details of list are at
>> http://deveurope.com/mailinglist/
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> (Cross-posted to dev-europe and info-childes as it seems  
>> appropriate to
>> both).
>>
>> A while back I was doing fieldwork in Kenya and asked for input on  
>> something
>> from a mailing list, and I happened to have with me Brown (1973),  
>> which
>> turned out to be very helpful.  Someone commented that this would  
>> teach us
>> all that wherever you go you should take your copy of Brown (1973).
>>
>> I have a PhD student who is going to be going to Indonesia to  
>> develop and
>> supervise the administration of tests for a study on the impact of  
>> maternal
>> micronutrient supplementation on preschool language and cognitive
>> development.  If you were going to a desert island (Lombok is not  
>> a desert,
>> but it is fairly isolated) what books would you take with you?
>>
>> I'm thinking perhaps something on language development, something on
>> cognitive development, and something on test construction?
>>
>> Any other categories? I don't know how much room she'll have in her
>> suitcase! Votes for classics versus the latest up-to-date  
>> specialist volume?
>>
>>
>> As usual will summarise and inform the list...
>>
>> Katie Alcock
>>
>>
>> Katie Alcock, DPhil
>> Lecturer
>> Department of Psychology
>> University of Lancaster
>> Fylde College
>> Lancaster LA1 4YF
>> Tel 01524 593833
>> Fax 01524 593744
>> Web http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/KatieAlcock.html
>>
>>
>>
>



Dr. Gary Marcus

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&
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