We explore the hypothesis that many intuitive physical inferences are based on a mental
physics engine that is analogous in many ways to the machine physics engines used in …

Two independent research communities have produced large bodies of data concerning
object representations: the community concerned with the infant's object concept and the …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a “big data for small tasks”
paradigm, under which massive amounts of data are used to train a classifier for a single …

Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area
should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …

In The Foundations of Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development
in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed …

In this theoretical paper we propose three different kinds of cognitive structure that have not
been differentiated in the psychological and cognitive linguistic literatures. They are spatial …

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional
relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects …

Does language influence nonlinguistic cognition, and do different languages influence it in
different ways? Testing these classical Whorfian questions presupposes speakers who are …

Investigations of infants' physical world over the past 20 years have revealed two main
findings. First, even very young infants possess expectations about physical events. Second …