The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks
that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through
infant perception research, infant responses to experiences enable
researchers to reveal perceptual competence, test hypotheses about
processes, and infer neural mechanisms, and researchers are able to
address age-old questions about perception and the origins of
knowledge. In The Cradle of Knowledge: Development of Perception in
Infancy Revisited, Martha E. Arterberry and Philip J. Kellman study
the methods and data of scientific research on infant perception,
introducing and analyzing topics (such as space, pattern, object,
and motion perception) through philosophical, theoretical, and
historical contexts. Infant perception research is placed in a
philosophical context by addressing the abilities with which humans
appear to be born, those that appear to emerge due to experience,
and the interaction of the two. The theoretical perspective is
informed by the ecological tradition, and from such a perspective
the authors focus on the information available for perception, when
it is used by the developing infant, the fit between infant
capabilities and environmental demands, and the role of perceptual
learning. Since the original publication of this book in 1998
(MIT), Arterberry and Kellman address in addition the mechanisms of
change, placing the basic capacities of infants at different ages
and exploring what it is that infants do with this information.
Significantly, the authors feature the perceptual underpinnings of
social and cognitive development, and consider two examples of
atypical development - congenital cataracts and Autism Spectrum
Disorder. Professionals and students alike will find this book a
critical resource to understanding perception, cognitive
development, social development, infancy, and developmental
cognitive neuroscience, as research on the origins of perception
has changed forever our conceptions of how human mental life
begins.
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