The Computational Infant: Looking for Developmental Cognitive Science

Abstract

Part 1 Infancy, cognitivism and computation: why a computational theory of infancy? mechanisms intentionality development. Part 2 From low-level computer vision to early infancy vision: vision computation - Marr's perspective the primal sketch the 2-1/2D sketch the 3-D model description. Part 3 Getting perception into action - taking behaviour seriously functional perception coordinational and control - action programmes action an organizing construct redrawing the boundaries of computation and cognition implications for explanations. Part 4 Information and meaning: reservations about information recovery the what, where and how of information trying to versus see as meaning in action - the infant a causally embedded system representation and misrepresentation. Part 5 Action procedural representation: sensorimotor schemes procedural representation operationalizing action content and process in action-based knowledge comparison with other computational and cognitive approaches to action. Part 6 The structure of infant intention: knowing what you are doing - Piget's developmental framework alternative explanations of the AB error changing coordination and preconditions in action programmes action differentiation and the structure of infant intention need early intentions toward persons be different? procedures and states in infant goals. Part 7 Looking for developmental change and its constraints: the reasoning behind reconstruction - and some alternatives what does continuity of structure mean? action and concept - a discontinuity in experience? actio and non-triviality representational systems of representation initial state revisisted. Part 8 How does developmental change work?: programmed models of object concept development - data and assumptions requirements for alearning programme representational redescription representational change in classical vein connectionist insight? constructing the problem of object search through action final state revisted.

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