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To make sense of the world, infants have to perceive it, and research into the development of sensory and perceptual abilities is one of the most exciting and important areas of infancy research. This book aims both to reflect current knowledge of perceptual development and to point to some of many questions that remain unanswered. Each of the major sections is prefaced by introductory comments, making the book equally useful for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and professionals who are interested in early perceptual development and in infancy in general.
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A dozen studies set out the current knowledge about how people first begin to be aware of the world they land in, and point to some of the many questions that remain unanswered. They cover the normal and abnormal development of the visual system, the change of vision from sensation to perception with such elements as spatial categorization and objects, the perception of social stimuli such as connecting facial expressions with emotion, and the perception of speech and methods for testing it in infants. Graduates and advanced undergraduates, researchers and professionals in any of the fields that consider development or perception might find interesting insights. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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