Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
The Working Mind
Meaning and Mental Attention in Human Development
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2021
- Category
- Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, General, Neuroscience
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780262045551
- Publish Date
- Apr 2021
- List Price
- $79.00
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Description
A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence.
In The Working Mind, Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson propose a general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally and by doing so clarifies the nature of human intelligence. Pascual-Leone and Johnson explain "from within" (that is, from a subject's own processing perspective) cognitive developmental stages of growth, describing key causal factors that can account for the emergence of the working mind as a functional totality. Among these factors is a maturationally growing mental attention.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Juan Pascual-Leone is Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto. Once a student of Jean Piaget, he is a founder of neo-Piagetian approaches to cognitive development. Janice M. Johnson is Associate Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University. Pascual-Leone and Johnson are Codirectors of the Developmental Processes Laboratory at York University.