14.1621, Books: Cognitive Science: Newcombe, Huttenlocher

Mon Jun 9 15:19:42 UTC 2003

LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-1621. Mon Jun 9 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.1621, Books: Cognitive Science: Newcombe, Huttenlocher

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org):
	Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona
	Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisa at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================
Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are
available at the end of this issue.

=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:24:42 +0000
From:  dgw at mit.edu
Subject:  Making Space: Newcombe, Huttenlocher

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:24:42 +0000
From:  dgw at mit.edu
Subject:  Making Space: Newcombe, Huttenlocher

Title: Making Space
Subtitle: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning
Series Title: Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
           http://mitpress.mit.edu/		

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262640503

Author: Nora S. Newcombe
Author: Janellen  Huttenlocher				

Paperback: ISBN: 0262640503, Pages: 276, Price: $20
Comment: Hardcover published 2000

Abstract:

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To
understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people
code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how
they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until
recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial
development. Followers of Piaget claim that infants are born without
knowledge of space or a conception of permanent objects that occupy
space. They develop such knowledge through experience and manipulation
of their environment. Nativists suggest that the essential aspects of
spatial understanding are innate and that biological maturation of
specific brain areas can account for whatever aspects of spatial
development are not accounted for at birth. The Vygotskan approach
emphasizes the cultural transmission of spatial skills.

Nora Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher argue for an interactionist
approach to spatial development that incorporates and integrates
essential insights of the classic three approaches. They show how
biological preparedness interacts with the spatial environment that
infants encounter after birth to create spatial development and mature
spatial competence. Topics covered include spatial coding during
infancy and childhood; the early origins of coding distance in
continuous space, of coding location with respect to distal external
landmarks, and of hierarchical combination of information; the mental
processes that operate on stored spatial information; spatial
information as encoded in models and maps; and spatial information as
encoded in language. In conclusion, the authors discuss their account
of spatial development in relation to various approaches to cognitive
development in other domains, including quantitative development,
theory of mind, and language acquisition.

Lingfield(s):   Cognitive Science

Written In:   English (Language Code: ENG)

     See this book announcement on our website:
     http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=6366.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press
		http://www.cup.org	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Elsevier Science Ltd.
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics	

	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Kluwer Academic Publishers
		http://www.wkap.nl/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH
		http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/	

	MIT Press
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.degruyter.com	

	Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup-usa.org/	

	Rodopi
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
		http://www.routledge.com/	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	CSLI Publications
		http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/

	Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/

	Evolution Publishing
		http://www.evolpub.com

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
		http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

	Palgrave Macmillan
		http://www.palgrave.com

	Pearson Longman
		http://www.pearsoneduc.com/discipline.asp?d=LG

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-14-1621