Infant Perception: From Sensation to Cognition

Perception of Space, Speech, and Sound

Leslie B. Cohen, Philip Salapatek, Leslie B. Cohen, Philip Salapatek

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780121786021
• eBook ISBN: 9781483271019
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Infant Perception: From Sensation to Cognition, Volume II: Perception of Space, Speech, and Sound covers comprehensive programmatic examinations, which are arranged along a continuum from basic sensory and neurophysiological functioning to information processing and memory. This volume is organized into two parts encompassing six chapters, and begins with the difficulties prior research has had in assessing infant perception of depth or space. The next chapters provide a link between infants' perception of space and their perception of objects and evaluate both psychometric studies of object concept development and studies focusing specifically on Piaget's theory. These topics are followed by discussions of the infant's development of the concept of self, and that concept is used to explain the infant's perception of other persons. The final chapters deal with the infant vision and audition. These chapters specifically describe the developmental anatomy of the auditory pathway and the electrophysiological functioning and capacity. A series of studies on the infant's receptiveness for the segmental units of speech, the ability to perceive phonemic feature contrasts, and the manner in which this perception occurs is also provided. This book will prove useful to developmental psychologists and biologists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Perception of Space, Speech, and Sound
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Contents of Volume I
• Part A: OBJECTS AND SPACE
• Chapter 2. Infant Perception of the Third Dimension and Object Concept Development
• Chapter 3. Recent Studies Based on Piaget's View of Object Concept Development
• Chapter 4. Infants' Social Perception: A Constructivist View
• Part B: THE DISCRIMINATION OF SPEECH AND SOUND
• Chapter 6. Speech Perception in Early Infancy
• AUTHOR INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX