Mateusz Hohol

Foundations of Geometric Cognition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Foundations of Geometric Cognition presents an empirically inspired theory of geometric cognition. The book explains how language and diagrams provide cognitive scaffolding for abstract geometric thinking within a context of Euclidean systems of thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367173449
• ISBN-10: 0367173441
• Artikelnr.: 57816912

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Geometric thinking, the paradise of abstraction
Chapter 2. The hardwired foundations of geometric cognition
Chapter 3. Embodiment and abstraction
Chapter 4. Cognitive artifacts and Euclid: Diagrams and formulae
Conclusions and future directions for research
References