The Origins of Object Knowledge

1. Object representation as a central issue in cognitive science 2. Beyond 'what' and 'how many': Capacity, complexity and resolution of infants' object representations 3. A comparative approach to understanding human numerical cognition 4. Multiple object tracking in infants': four (or so) ways of being discrete 5. Do the same principles constrain persisting object representation in infant cognition and adult perception? The cases of continuity and cohesion 6. Spatiotemporal priority as a fundamental principle of object persistence 7. Infants' representations of material entities 8. The developmental origins of animal and artefact concepts 9. Building object knowledge from perceptual input 10. Modeling the origins of object knowledge 11. Induction, overhypotheses, and the shape bias: some arguments and evidence for rational constructivism 12. Young infants' expectations about self-propelled objects 13. Clever eyes and stupid hands: current thoughts on why dissociations of apparent knowledge occur on solidity tasks