Johnson's Your Baby from 6 to 12 Months

Johnson's Your Baby from 6 to 12 Months

Author: Tracey Godridge

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780789484451

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Provides an overview of the physical, cognitive, and emotional development of children between six and twelve months of age, and offers parents advice on how to stimulate and nurture their child.


Johnson's Your Baby from Birth to 6 Months

Johnson's Your Baby from Birth to 6 Months

Author: Katy Holland

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780789484468

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Provides an overview of the physical, cognitive, and emotional development of children under six months of age, and offers parents advice on how to stimulate and nurture their child.


Johnson & Johnson from Baby to Toddler

Johnson & Johnson from Baby to Toddler

Author: John J. Fisher

Publisher: Perigee Trade

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780399513930

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Organized chronologically from birth to 24 months and utilizing all the latest research findings, this up-to-date resource from the most respected manufacturer of baby-care products not only details how to care for the baby and his or her physical, social, emotional, and language development, but also addresses contemporary parenting issues. Black-and-white illustrations.


The Social Brain

The Social Brain

Author: Jean Decety

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0262358972

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A range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood. Recent research on the developmental origins of the social mind supports the view that social cognition is present early in infancy and childhood in surprisingly sophisticated forms. Developmental psychologists have found ingenious ways to test the social abilities of infants and young children, and neuroscientists have begun to study the neurobiological mechanisms that implement and guide early social cognition. Their work suggests that, far from being unfinished adults, babies are exquisitely designed by evolution to capture relevant social information, learn, and explore their social environments. This volume offers a range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood.


Developmental Robotics

Developmental Robotics

Author: Angelo Cangelosi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2015-01-23

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 0262325306

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A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's cognitive development. Developmental robotics is a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to robotics that is directly inspired by the developmental principles and mechanisms observed in children's cognitive development. It builds on the idea that the robot, using a set of intrinsic developmental principles regulating the real-time interaction of its body, brain, and environment, can autonomously acquire an increasingly complex set of sensorimotor and mental capabilities. This volume, drawing on insights from psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and robotics, offers the first comprehensive overview of a rapidly growing field. After providing some essential background information on robotics and developmental psychology, the book looks in detail at how developmental robotics models and experiments have attempted to realize a range of behavioral and cognitive capabilities. The examples in these chapters were chosen because of their direct correspondence with specific issues in child psychology research; each chapter begins with a concise and accessible overview of relevant empirical and theoretical findings in developmental psychology. The chapters cover intrinsic motivation and curiosity; motor development, examining both manipulation and locomotion; perceptual development, including face recognition and perception of space; social learning, emphasizing such phenomena as joint attention and cooperation; language, from phonetic babbling to syntactic processing; and abstract knowledge, including models of number learning and reasoning strategies. Boxed text offers technical and methodological details for both psychology and robotics experiments.


Social Perception

Social Perception

Author: M.D. Rutherford

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2013-08-30

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0262019272

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An interdisciplinary exploration of perceptual and cognitive processes underlying the ability to perceive social information, drawing on current research and new experimental techniques. As we enter a room full of people, we instantly have a number of social perceptions. We have an automatic perception of others as subjective agents with their own points of view, thoughts, and goals, and we can quickly interpret minimal visual information to infer that something is animate. This book explores the perceptual and cognitive processes that allow humans to perceive and understand this social information quickly and apparently effortlessly. Top researchers in fields ranging from developmental psychology to vision science consider the perception of biological and animate motion, inferences based on this motion, and the early development of these abilities. These innovative contributions reflect a recent renewal of interest in the attribution of agency and the understanding of goal-directed behavior, which has been accompanied by a rapid increase in empirical discoveries enabled by such new experimental techniques as brain imaging. The research presented in Social Perception suggests that an intuitive understanding of others is an integral part of human psychology, develops early, relies on a network of brain regions, and may be compromised in autism. Contributors Dare Baldwin, Lara Bardi, H. Clark Barrett, Erin Cannon, You-jung Choi, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Tao Gao, Emily D. Grossman, Antonia Hamilton, Petra Hauf, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier, Jeff Loucks, Scott A. Love, Yuyan Luo, Elena Mascalzoni, Phil McAleer, Richard Ramsey, Lucia Regolin, M.D. Rutherford, Kara Sage, Brian J. Scholl, Maggie Shiffrar, Francesca Simion, Jessica Sommerville, James P. Thomas, Nikolaus Troje, Amanda Woodward


The Second Twelve Months of Life

The Second Twelve Months of Life

Author: Frank Caplan

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1982-10

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0553264389

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Your baby's second year is a wondrous and challenging experience for parents and child as your baby reaches out physically and emotionally for the world beyond mommy and daddy -- to friends, to toys, to sights, sounds, thoughts and words. In these twelve months you will see your baby communicating, identifying, differentiating, recognizing and remembering. Your baby will probably begin to walk alone, run and jump, play simple instructive games, imitate your actions, sing and dance to music, and increasingly demonstrate a desire to "do it myself." By the end of this milestone year, your baby will show an expanding range of emotions and abiliy to express them, show off for an audience, probably talk several dozen words and be able to give as well as receive love.


Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm

Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm

Author: Roberto Masone

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 144389270X

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United by the will of giving to the Caribbean legacy and language the prestige they deserve, Marlene NourbeSe Philip and Linton Kwesi Johnson constitute a fascinating task for any scholar who approaches their work. This work moves among sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and translation issues, exploring some of the most representative works by Philip and Johnson.