This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitivepsychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisitionhave provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered by the essays include thefoundations of language and thought, congnitive and linguistic development, and mathematicalapproaches to cognition.
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This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitivepsychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisitionhave provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered by the essays include thefoundations of language and thought, congnitive and linguistic development, and mathematicalapproaches to cognition.