Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and
Comparative Perspectives is the proceedings of a workshop held at
Emory University in 2002 to discuss the difficult and age-old issue
of what makes a symbol symbolic. The issue shifts towards exploring
the relation between apparent symbolic behavior and actual symbolic
insight on the part of the user or recipient. The workshop
discussed the pitfalls of inferring symbolic understanding from
apparently symbolic behaviors and possible criteria that would
enable us to ascertain when a symbol is being employed in an
intentional, communicative, representational manner. Broken down
into three parts, this volume: *focuses on the factors that
influence the emergence of symbolic behavior in young, typically
developing children; *turns to an examination of individual and
population differences in symbolic development and the ways
variability in symbol use can inform the cognitive mechanisms
underlying symbolic insight; and *explores symbolic understanding
in non-human animals. The text ends with a synthesis of recurring
themes, questions, concerns, and conclusions, and offers a new
perspective on the process of understanding the relation between
symbol use and symbolic insight.
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