Infants' Sense of People (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521818483)

Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theory and focusing on infants during their first year of life, Maria Legerstee asserts that they have an innate sense of people at birth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions. She questions the idea that infants use physical parameters such as contingencies or motion to distinguish people from objects, and rejects the assumption that infants are mechanical creatures before they become psychological ones. She argues persuasively that before infants learn to speak, interactions with others are possible because infants have a primitive pre-linguistic 'theory of mind'.

Author: Maria Legerstee
ISBN-10: 0521818486
ISBN-13: 9780521818483
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.38w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2006 pg. 378