Bøger i Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change serien

A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."

The first steps toward merging the cognitive and social approaches to language processing.

A mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains.

In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank Keil develops a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages.

An Odyssey in Learning and Perception documents a fifty-year intellectual expedition in the areas of learning and perception--always with an eye to combining them in a theory of perceptual learning and development, a theory that may be broadly applicable to humans and nonhumans, young and old.

An attempt to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel.

Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, this work offers a theory of developmental change which embraces both approaches, showing their value to a basic theory of human cognition. This book was awarded the 1995 British Psychological Society Award.