Thought without language
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Thought without language
(A Fyssen Foundation symposium)(Oxford science publications)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
- : hard
- : pbk
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Report of the third Fyssen symposium held at the Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France, April 3-7, 1987
Includes bibliographies and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of 19 essays aiming to answer questions about the dependancy of thought on language, based on a Fyssen Foundation symposium held in Versailles in April 1987 and bringing together research into non-verbal thinking in adults, in pre-linguistic infants and in animals. Topics covered include the role of the "non-verbal" right cerebral hemisphere in humans; the investigation of non-verbal aspects of various categories of cognition (such as abstract reasoning, spatial awareness and pattern recognition); evidence for cognition without conscious awareness, and neurological and developmental evidence. The concluding chapter is a personal account by a dyslexic mathematician of the nature of his handicap and the non-verbal reasoning that he has developed to cope with this.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Part 1 Emergence and instruction: the origins of referential communication in human infancy
- the Ontogenesis of different types of thought language and motor behaviours as non-specific manifestations
- minds with and without language. Part 2 Categorical perception: functional organization of visual recognition
- face perception and the right hemisphere
- stimulus generalization and the acquisition of categories by pigeons. Part 3 The Ontogeny of perceptual and casual knowledge: the origins of physical knowledge
- perception and thought in infancy
- an information-processing approach to infant cognitive development. Part 4 Implicit processing and intentionality: dissociation between implicit and explicit knowledge in neuropsychological syndromes
- what can the bird brain tell us about thought without language?
- intentionality in animal conditioning. Part 5 Shapes, space and memory: differences between adult and infant cognition
- animal spatial cognition
- primate cognition of space and shapes. Part 6 Verbal/non-verbal interaction and independence: the dynamics of cerebral specialization and modular interactions
- cognitive function in severe aphasia
- language without thought. Part 7 Dyslexia and a mathematician's experience: a personal view. Afterthoughts.
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