Andrew N Meltzoff: 2 books

The Scientist In The Crib

Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn

by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N Meltzoff, Patricia K Kuhl
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them.It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is...

Joint Attention

New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience

by Timothy P. Racine, David A. Leavens, Colwyn Trevarthen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention. Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past...