Reviews the major fields of research relating culture and cognition, discussing the history of
speculation concerning culture-thought relations in perception, language, memory …

Cross-cultural studies are necessary for the complete development of theories in
environmental research since no one culture contains all environmental conditions that can …

Researchers examining children's mathematics acquisition are now questioning the belief
that children learn mathematics principally through formalized, in-school mathematics …

Originally published in 1974, studies of cultural influences on cognition, carried out from a
variety of theoretical and methodological stances, were collected for the first time in this …

This serial publication continues to review life-span research and theory in the behavioral
and social sciences, particularly work done by psychologists and sociologists conducting …

The large number of studies which have been published recently on the cross-cultural
implications of Piaget's theory are extremely heterogeneous. This summary attempts to …

* Examines the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences in a cultural context,
tracing their evolution from ancient times up to the twentieth century* 176 articles contributed …

Visual spatial memory was investigated in Australian Aboriginal children of desert origin.
The investigation arose from an environmental pressures hypothesis relating particular skills …

In undertaking a review of cross-cultural cognitive studies, one is naturally inclined to ask
what anthropologists have done in this area. The answer unfortunately is very little. This is in …

Berry's (1971) model of ecological functionalism is extended to Piagetian developmental
psychology. It is predicted that the rate of development of concrete operations may be partly …