Books in the OXFORD SERIES IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT series

Sentence First, Arguments Afterward collects the important papers of Lila Gleitman, a pioneer of the field of cognitive science. The book explores language from the perspective of language acquisition, linguistic relativity, and the very nature of syntax and semantics. Gleitman reveals insights that are important both for their perspective on the history of the field and for current practice in the study of language and thought.

Addressing the issues surrounding essentialism from the perspective of developmental psychology, this book examines children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. Synthesizing 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, it is aimed at developmental, cognitive and social psychologists, and others.

This book offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts. Drawing on extensive research, Mandler describes the development of preverbal concept formation, inductive inference, and recall, and explains how these processes form the conceptual basis for language and adult thought.

New in paperback- A transformative book on the way we think about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.

Are humans born good? Or do children learn to be moral? Where do concepts like "democracy" and "atom" come from? This volume documents ground-breaking answers to these questions from developmental psychology, including new science on language, morality, causal explanation, and children's understanding of time, numbers, and other minds.

Causal Learning provides a compendium of research determining how, in principle, the problem of causal inference and learning can be solved, and a wealth of methods for determining how it is, in fact, solved by children, adults, and animals.