Although individuals learn continually, they do have preferences about how they learn. Thus, everyone has a learning style. However, there exists a confusing array of definitions of learning style, a term often used interchangeably with cognitive style or learning ability. Prior to the mid-1970s, researchers experimented with cognitive style; their definitions were different, but all were concerned with how the mind actually processed information or was affected by individual perceptions.

 

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First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child's first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs, and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning.

Words and Other Wonders

Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings together seventeen previously published papers that testify to the fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of lexical and semantic topics. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may be considered classics within the field of cognitive linguistic lexicology.

A unique cross-disciplinary critique of the foundations of Special Education.

• Covers legal, conceptual, medical, pharmacological, neuropsychological, social, behavioural, cognitive, psychotherapeutic, psycholinguistic, technological and pedagogical foundations

Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive ScienceMind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, they work particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An Introduction Cognitive Science