Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change

List of Contributors XI Acknowledgements XIV Part I: INTRODUCTION 1 1 An Introduction to Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change (David Barner & Andrew Scott Baron) 1 Part II: processes of conceptual change # 2 Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Rational Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Development: Primitives, Symbols, Learning, and Thinking (Fei Xu) # 3 How is Conceptual Change Possible? Insights From Science Education (MariAnne Wiser & Carol L. Smith # 4 Bundles of Contradiction: A Coexistence View of Conceptual Change (Andrew Shtulman & Tania Lombrozo) # 5 Conceptual Change: Where Domain-Specific Learning Mechanisms Meet Domain- General Cognitive Resources (Deborah Zaitchik, Gregg E.A. Solomon, Nathan Tardiff, & Igor Bascandziev) .....# 6 Surprise Enhances Early Learning (Lisa Feigenson) # Part III: Abstract Concepts # 7 Inferring Number, Time, and Color Concepts From Core Knowledge and Linguistic Structure (Katie Wagner, Katharine Tillman, & David Barner) # 8 Different Faces of Language in Numerical Development: Exact Number and Individuation (Susan Levine & Renee Baillargeon # 9 How Numbers are Like the Earth (and Unlike Faces, Loitering or Knitting) (Barbara Sarnecka) # 10 Epistemic Limitations and Precise Estimates in Analog Magnitude Representation (Justin Halberda) # 11 A Framework for Frames of Reference (Anna Shusterman & Peggy Li) # Part IV: Linguistic Structure # 12 Mechanisms for Thinking about Kinds, Instances of Kinds, and Kinds of Things (Sandeep Prasada) # 13 Concepts as Explanatory Structures: Evidence From Word Learning and the Development of Lexical Flexibility (Mahesh Srinivasan) # 14 Conceptualizing the Event: The Relationship Between Infants' Representations and Linguistic Organization (Laura Lakusta & Laura Wagner) # 15 When Children Don't Say What They Know: Syntax Acquisition and Executive Function (Virginia Valian) # Part V: Social and moral Cognition # 16 Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change: A Perspective on Social Cognition (Elizabeth S. Spelke) # 17 Is False Belief Understanding Continuous from Infancy to Preschool Age? (Beate Sodian) # 18 What Neuroscience can Reveal about Cognition and its Origins? (Amy Skerry & Rebecca Saxe) # 19 What Develops in Moral Development? (Paul Bloom & Karen Wynn) # 20 Developmental Origins of Social Group Preferences (Andrew Scott Baron, Yarrow Dunham, & Anthea Pun) # Index