Knowledge and Representation
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Beatrice de Gelder is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University's Faculty of Neuroscience and Psychology. Her research interests include behavioral and neural emotion processing from facial and bodily expressions, multisensory perception and interaction between auditory and visual processes, and nonconscious perception in neurological patients.
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Introduction 1. On Fodor on cognitive development 2. Imitation, knowledge and representation 3. On the representations of representations and on what happens to them 4. Modifications in children's representational systems and levels of accessing knowledge 5. Discursive representation in infancy 6. The early stages of communicative and linguistic development: underlying processes 7. The problem of imagery and spatial development in the blind 8. Spatial cognition: the mental representation of objects and forms 9. A note on representationalism 10. Conversation and intelligence 11. Depths of knowledge 12. Attributing knowledge to young children 13. The nature and development of the kinetic representational system
