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This is a commentary on Jean Mandler's The foundations of mind: Origins of conceptual thought (see Mandler, 2004 ). What is most characteristic of perceptual representation is that it is categorial in nature . . . We see triangles, lines, apples, people. ( Bruner, 1957 ) In The foundations of mind: Origins of conceptual thought , Jean Mandler articulately describes her theory of how infants form concepts. This provocative book provides important reading for investigators of early cognitive development as well as cognitive scientists more generally interested in concepts and the role they play in related mental activities, such as the representation of objects and events, language and consciousness. Piaget's (1952 ) argument that symbolic knowledge emerges from the compilation of infant sensorimotor activity is the point of departure, and Mandler's alternative account has as its centerpiece the notion that the representation of procedural and declarative knowledge are dissociable and operative in parallel, possibly from the earliest beginnings of development. Mandler's theoretical system operates by splitting concepts away from percepts (and perceptual categories) via a process of perceptual meaning analysis that allows infants in the second half of the first year of life (and perhaps sooner) to represent
Developmental Science – Wiley
Published: Nov 1, 2004
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