CURRICULUM VITAE

Jean Matter Mandler

June, 2010

Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science

Department of Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California 92093-0515

Email: jmandler@ucsd.edu

Telephone: (858) 534-3937

Education:

B.A. with Highest Honors (Philosophy) Swarthmore College 1951

Ph.D. (Psychology) Harvard University, 1956

Professional Experience and Activities:

Harvard University: 1951-60

Research Assistant and Teaching Fellow, 1951-56

USPHS Postdoctoral Fellow, 1956-57

Research Associate, Laboratory of Social Relations, 1957-60

University of Toronto, 1961-65

Research Associate, Department of Psychology

University of California, San Diego, 1965--

Associate Research Psychologist, 1965-73

Lecturer, 1967-73

Associate Professor, 1973-77

Professor, 1977-1996

Distinguished Professor, 1996-

Distinguished Research Professor, 2000-

Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, 1971-72; 1978

Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, 1978-90, and Visiting Professor, 1990--

Honorary Member, MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London, 1982-1996

Visiting Scholar, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 1984

National Science Foundation Advisory Committee (Memory and Cognitive Processes) 1978-81

Advisory Council, International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance,

1987-93

Associate Editor, Psychological Review, 1970-76

Editorial and Advisory Boards:

Child Development, 1976-89

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1977-1983

Discourse Processes, 1977--94

Text, 1979--97

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1980-1985

Journal of Memory and Language, 1980-1988

Language and Cognitive Processes, 1984-2009

Cognitive Development, 1990--99

Journal of Cognition and Development, 2000-2009

Ad hoc Reviews:

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Child Development

Cognition

Developmental Psychology

Developmental Review

Developmental Science

Human Development

Journal of Child Language

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

National Science Foundation

Psychological Science

Psychological Review

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Consultant: "The Growing Years" Telecourse on Child Development, 1976-77

Consultant: National Institutes of Health Research Contract: Evaluation of the outcome of preschool impairments in language development, 1979-82

Awards and Honorary Societies:

American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 2007.

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists

Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Societies:

American Psychological Association (Fellow, Divisions 3 and 7), 1956-89

Executive Committee, Division 3, 1983-85

Psychonomic Society; Governing Board, 1982-87; Chair, 1985-86.

American Psychological Society (Fellow)

Society for Research in Child Development, Publications Committee, 1975-77

Nominations Committee, 1983-85.

Cognitive Science Society

International Society of Infancy

Cognitive Development Society; Book Award Committee, 2004-05

Research Grants:

Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Research Grant: Stimulus control in discrimination learning, 1968-73

Principal Investigator, San Diego Unified School District Research Grant: Identification and assessment of abilities in Black and Mexican-American children, 1970-71

Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Research Grant: Development of semantic and visual organization, 1973-81

Member, MacArthur Foundation Network: The Transition from Infancy to Childhood, 1982-87

Principal Investigator, MacArthur Foundation Research Grant: The development of complex representations in the second year of life, 1983-85

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Research Grants: Development of semantic and visual organization; Early conceptual development, 1981-1999.

Publications

Books

Mandler, J. M., & Mandler, G. (1964). Thinking: From Association to Gestalt. New York: Wiley.

Mandler, J. M. (1984). Stories, scripts, and scenes: Aspects of schema theory. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mandler, J. M. (2004). The foundations of mind: The origins of conceptual thought. New York: Oxford University Press.

American Psychological Association Division 7 Eleanor Maccoby Outstanding Book Award, 2006.

Cognitive Development Society Best Authored Book Award, 2007.

Chapters

Mandler, J. M., & Mandler, G. (1968). The diaspora of experimental psychology: The Gestaltists and others. In D. Fleming and B. Bailyn, Perspectives in American History (Vol. 2). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, and D. Fleming & B. Bailyn (Eds.), (1969) The Intellectual Migration, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (1979). Commentary: A Trialogue on dialogue. In M. H. Bornstein and W. Kessen (Eds.), Psychological development from infancy: Image to intention. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mandler, J. M. (1979). Categorical and schematic organization in memory. In R. C. Puff (Ed.), Memory organization and structure. New York: Academic Press.

Mandler, J. M. (1982). An analysis of story grammars. In F. Klix, J. Hoffmanm, & E. van der Meer (Eds.), Cognitive research in psychology. Amsterdam: North Holland.

Mandler, J. M. (1982). Recent research on story grammars. In J. F. Le Ny & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Language and comprehension. Amsterdam: North Holland.

Mandler, J. M. (1983). Representation. In J. H. Flavell & E. M. Markman (Eds.),. Cognitive development. Vol. 3, P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: New York: Wiley.

Mandler, J. M. (1983). Structural invariants in development. In L. Liben (Ed.), Piaget and the foundations of knowledge. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mandler, J. M. (1984). Representation and recall in infancy. In M. Moscovitch (Ed.), Infant memory. New York: Plenum.

Mandler, J. M. (1986). The development of event memory. In F. Klix & H. Hagendorf (Eds.), Human memory and cognitive capabilities. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Mandler, J. M. (1988). On topological and Euclidean representation. In U. Bellugi, J. Stiles-Davis, & M. Kritchevsky (Eds.), The development of spatial cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mandler, J. M. (1989). Categorization in infancy and early childhood. In M. A. Luszcz & T. Nettlebeck (Eds.), Psychological development: Perspectives across the life-span (pp 127-139). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Bauer, P. J., & Mandler, J. M. (1990). Remembering what happened next: Very young children's recall of event sequences. In R. Fivush & J. Hudson (Eds.), Knowing and remembering in young children (pp 9-29). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (1990). Recall and its verbal expression. In R. Fivush & J. Hudson (Eds.), Knowing and remembering in young children (pp 317-330). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (1990). Recall of events by preverbal children. In A. Diamond (Ed.), The development and neural bases of higher cognitive functions (pp 485-516). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

Mandler, J. M. (1991). Prelinguistic primitives. In L. A. Sutton & C. Johnson (Eds.), Proceedings of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp 414-425). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Mandler, J. M. (1994). From perception to conception. In P. van Geert, L. P. Mos, & W. J. Baker (Eds.), Annals of theoretical psychology, Vol. 10. (pp 43-57). New York: Plenum.

Mandler, J. M. (1995). The death of developmental psychology. In R. L. Solso & D. W. Massaro (Eds.), The science of the mind: 2001 and beyond. Oxford University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (1996). Preverbal representation and language. In P. Bloom, M. Peterson, L. Nadel., & M. Garrett (Eds.), Language and space. (pp 365- 384). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L. (1997). Nonverbal recall. In N. L. Stein, P. O. Ornstein, B. Tversky, & C. Brainerd (Eds.), Memory for everyday and emotional events. (pp 141-164) Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Mandler, J. M. (1997). Development of categorization: Perceptual and conceptual categories. In G. Bremner, A. Slater, & G. Butterworth (Eds.), Infant Development: Recent Advances. (pp 163- 189).Hove: England: Psychology Press.

Mandler, J. M. (1998). Representation. In D. Kuhn & R. Siegler (Eds.), Cognition, perception, and language, Vol. 2 of W. Damon (Series Ed.), Handbook of child psychology. (pp 255- 308). New York: Wiley.

Mandler, J. M. (1998). The rise and fall of semantic memory. In M. Conway, S. Gathercole, & C. Cornoldi (Eds.), Theories of memory II. (pp 147-169). Hove, East Sussex, England: Psychology Press.

McDonough, L., Choi, S., Bowerman, M., & Mandler, J. M. (1998). The use of preferential looking as a measure of semantic development. In C. Rovee-Collier, L. Lipsitt, & H. Hayne (Eds.), Advances in infancy research, Vol. 12. Stamford, CT: Ablex.

Mandler, J. M. (2001). Early concept learning in children. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Elsevier.

Mandler, J. M. (2002). On the foundations of the semantic system. In E Forde & G. Humphreys (Eds.), Category-specificity in brain and mind. (pp 315-340). Hove, East Sussex, England: Psychology Press.

Mandler, J. M. (2003). Conceptual categorization. In D. Rakison & L. M. Oakes (Eds.), Early category and concept development. (pp 103-131). New York: Oxford University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (2003) Categorization, Development of. In Nadel, L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Vol. 1, pp. 452 - 456. London: Nature Publishing Group.

Mandler, J. M. (2004). Two kinds of knowledge acquisition: In J. Lucariello, J. A. Hudson, R. Fivush, & P. J. Bauer (Eds.), Development of the mediated mind. (pp. 13-32). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Mandler, J. M. (2005). How to build a baby III: Image-schemas and the transition to verbal thought. In B. Hampe (Ed.), Image schemas in cognitive linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Mandler, J. M. (2006). Actions organize the infant’s world. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R. M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets word: How children learn verbs. (pp. 111-133). New York: Oxford University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (2007). The conceptual foundations of animals and artifacts. In S. Laurence & E. Margolis (Eds.), Creations of the mind. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Mandler, J. M. (2007). How do we remember? Let me count the ways. In L. M. Oakes & P. .J. Bauer (Eds.), Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. (pp.271-290). New York: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

Bruner, J. S., Matter, J. M., & Papanek, M. L. (1955). Breadth of learning as a function of drive level and mechanization. Psychological Review, 62, 1-10.

Mandler, J. M. (1957). Irregular maintenance schedules and drive. Science, 126, 505-507.

Mandler, J. M. (1958). Effect of early food deprivation on adult behavior in the rat. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 51, 513-517.

Mandler, G., Mandler, J. M., & Uviller, E. T. (1958). Autonomic feedback: The perception of autonomic activity. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 56, 367-373.

Bruner, J. S., Mandler, J. M., O'Dowd, D., & Wallach, M. A. (1958). The role of overlearning and drive level in reversal learning. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 51, 607-613.

Mandler, G., Mandler, J. M., Kremen, I., & Sholiton, R. D. (1961). The response to threat: Relations among verbal and physiological indices. Psychological Monographs, 75, No. 9 (Whole No. 513).

Mandler, G., & Mandler, J. M. (1962). Associative behavior and somatic response. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 16, 331-343.

Mandler, G., & Mandler, J. M. (1964). Serial position effects in sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 3, 195-202.

Mandler, J. M. (1966). Behavior changes during overtraining and their effects on reversal and transfer. Psychonomic Monograph Supplements,1, 187-202.

Mandler, J. M., & Hooper, W. R. (1967). Overtraining and goal approach strategies in discrimination reversal. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 19, 142-149.

Mandler, J. M. (1968). Overtraining and the use of positive and negative stimuli in reversal and transfer. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 66, 110-115.

Mandler, J. M. (1970). Two choice discrimination learning using multiple stimuli. Learning and Motivation, 1, 261-266.

Mandler, J. M. (1971). Multiple stimulus discrimination learning. II. Effects of prior training. Psychonomic Science, 23, 195-196.

Mandler, J. M. (1973). Multiple stimulus discrimination learning. III. What is learned? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 25, 112-123.

Mandler, J. M., & Goldberg, J. (1973). Effects of partially and continuously reinforced pretraining on choice and latency measures in the rat. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 84, 118-127.

Mandler, J. M., & Stein, N. L. (1974). Recall and recognition of pictures by children as a function of organization and distractor similarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 657-669.

Stein, N. L., & Mandler, J. M. (1974). Children's recognition of reversals of geometric figures. Child Development, 45, 604-615.

Mandler, J. M., & Mandler, G. (1974). "Good Guys" vs. "Bad Guys": The subject-object dichotomy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 14, 63-78.

Stein, N. L., & Mandler, J. M. (1975). Development of detection and recognition of orientation of geometric and real figures. Child Development, 46, 379-388.

Mandler, J. M., & Goldberg, J. (1975). Changes in response to S+ and S- during acquisition and overtraining of simultaneous discriminations. Animal Learning and Behavior, 3, 226-234.

Mandler, J. M., & Day, J. (1975). Memory for orientation of forms as a function of their meaningfulness and complexity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 20, 430-443.

Mandler, J. M., & Parker, R. E. (1976). Memory for descriptive and spatial information in complex pictures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 2, 38-48.

Mandler, J. M., & Johnson, N. S. (1976). Some of the thousand words a picture is worth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 2, 529-540.

Mandler, J. M. (1976). Some problems in the definition and measurement of imagery. Child Development, 47, 888-889.

Mandler, J. M., Johnson, N.S., & DeForest, M. (1976). A structural analysis of stories and their recall: From "Once upon a time" to "Happily every after" (Tech. Rep. 57). La Jolla, CA: University of California, San Diego, Center for Human Information Processing.

Mandler, J. M., & Stein, N. L. (1977). The myth of perceptual defect: Sources and evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 84, 173-192.

Mandler, J. M. (1977). Language comprehension. Review of M. A. Just & P. A. Carpenter (Eds.), Cognitive processes in comprehension, 1977. Science, 203, 259-260.

Mandler, J. M., & Johnson, N. S. (1977). Remembrance of things parsed: Story structure and recall. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 111-151.

German translation: (1978). Erzählstruktur und Erinnerungsleistung. Eine Grammatik einfacher Geschichten. (1978). In W. Haubrichs (Ed.). Erzählforschung, 3. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 239 (Beiheft 8, Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik.)

Citation Classic. (1983). In Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences), 15, No. 17, 20.

French translation: (1984). A la recherche du conte perdu: Structure de récit et rappel. In G. DenhiPre (Ed.), Il était une fois.... Lille, France: Universitaires de Lille.

Mandler, J. M., Seegmiller, D., & Day, J. (1977). On the coding of spatial information. Memory and Cognition, 5, 10-16.

Mandler, J. M., & Ritchey, G. H. (1977). Long-term memory for pictures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 3, 386-396.

Mandler, J. M., & Stein, N. S. (1977). Encoding and retrieval of orientation information: A new slant on an old problem. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 10, 9-12.

Mandler, J. M. (1978). A code in the node: The use of a story schema in retrieval. Discourse Processes, 1, 14-35.

Mandler, J. M. Mnemonic Processing. (1978). Review of R. V. Kail, Jr. & J. W. Hagen (Eds.), Perspectives on the development of memory and cognition, 1977. Science, 199, 1198.

Mandler, J. M. & Robinson, C. A. (1978). Developmental changes in picture recognition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 26, 122-136.

Worden, P. E., Mandler, J. M., & Chang, F. R. (1978). Children's free recall: An explanation of sorts. Child Development, 49, 836-844.

Mandler, J. M., & DeForest, M. (1979). Is there more than one way to recall a story? Child Development, 50, 886-889.

Mandler, J. M., Scribner, S., Cole, M., & DeForest, M. (1980). Cross-cultural invariance in story recall. Child Development, 51, 19-26.

Reprinted: (1982). In J. K. Gardner (Ed.), Readings in developmental psychology, 2nd edition. Boston: Little Brown & Co.

Johnson, N. S. & Mandler, J. M. (1980). A tale of two structures: Underlying and surface forms in stories. Poetics, 9, 51-86.

French translation: (1984). Un conte a deux structures: Structure sous-jacente et structure de surface des récits. In G. DenhiPre (Ed.), Il était une fois.... Lille, France: Presses Universitaires de Lille.

Mandler, J. M. & Read, J. D. (1980). Repeated measurement designs in picture-memory studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 400-406.

Mandler, J. M. & Johnson, N. S. (1980). On throwing out the baby with the bathwater: A reply to Black and Wilensky's evaluation of story grammars. Cognitive Science, 4, 305-312.

Gaines, R., Mandler, J. M., & Bryant, P. (1981). Immediate and delayed story recall by hearing and deaf children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 24, 116-122.

Mandler, J. M. (1982). Recherches récentes sur les grammaires de récit. Bulletin de Psychologie, 35, 705-715.

Mandler, J. M. (1982). Another story of grammars: Comments on de Beaugrande's "The story of grammars and the grammar of stories." Journal of Pragmatics, 6, 433-440.

Mandler, J. M. & Goodman, M. S. (1982). On the psychological validity of story structure. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 507-523.

Mandler, J. M. (1982). Some uses and abuses of a story grammar. Discourse Processes, 5, 305-318.

Mandler, J. M. & Murphy, C. M. (1983). Subjective judgments of script structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, 534-543.

Gerard, A. B. & Mandler, J. M. (1983). Ontological knowledge and sentence anomaly. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 105-120.

Rabinowitz, M. & Mandler, J. M. (1983). Organization and information retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, 430-439.

Mandler, J. M. (1983). What a story is. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 603-604.

Fivush, R. & Mandler, J. M. (1985). Developmental changes in the understanding of temporal sequence. Child Development, 56, 1437-1446.

Mandler, J. M. (1986). On the comprehension of temporal order. Language and Cognitive Processes, 1, 309-320.

Mandler, J. M. (1987). On the psychological reality of story structure. Discourse Processes, 10, 1-29.

Mandler, J. M., Fivush, R., & Reznick, J. S. (1987). The development of contextual categories. Cognitive Development, 2, 339-354.

Mandler, J. M. (1988). How to build a baby: On the development of an accessible representational system. Cognitive Development, 3, 113-136.

Mandler, J. M. & Bauer, P. J. (1988). The cradle of categorization: Is the basic level basic? Cognitive Development, 3, 247-264.

Bauer, P. J. & Mandler, J. M. (1989). Taxonomies and triads: Conceptual organization in one- to two-year olds. Cognitive Psychology, 21, 156-184.

Bauer, P. J. & Mandler, J. M. (1989). One thing follows another: Effects of temporal structure on one- to two-year olds' recall of events. Developmental Psychology, 25, 197-206.

Mandler, J. M. (1990). A new perspective on cognitive development in infancy. American Scientist, 78, 236-243.

Reprinted in M. G. Walraven & H. E. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Annual Editions: Psychology 91/92. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group.

Reprinted in Contemporary Readings for General Biology. 3rd edition, 1992.

Reprinted in L. Fenson & J. Fenson (Eds.), Annual Editions: Human Development, 93/94. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group.

Mandler, J. M., Bauer, P. J., & McDonough, L. (1991). Separating the sheep from the goats: Differentiating global categories. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 263-298.

Bauer, P. J. & Mandler, J. M. (1992). Putting the horse before the cart: The use of temporal order in recall of events by one-year-old children. Developmental Psychology, 28, 441-452.

Mandler, J. M. (1992). The precocious infant revisited. SRCD Newsletter, Spring Issue.

Mandler, J. M. (1992). Commentary: The importance of motor activity in sensorimotor development - A perspective from children with physical handicaps. Human Development, 35, 246-253.

Mandler, J. M. (1992). How to build a baby II: Conceptual primitives. Psychological Review, 99, 587-604.

Mandler, J. M. (1992). Foundations of conceptual thought in infancy. Cognitive Development, 7, 273-285.

Mandler, J. M. (1993). On distinguishing concepts from percepts. SRCD Newsletter, Winter Issue, 14.

Mandler, J. M. (1993). On concepts. Cognitive Development, 8, 141-148.

Mandler, J. M. & Orlich, F. (1993). Analogical transfer: The roles of schema abstraction and awareness. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 31, 485-487.

Mandler, J. M., & McDonough, L. (1993). Concept formation in infancy. Cognitive Development, 8, 291-318.

Mandler, J. M. (1994). Precursors of linguistic knowledge. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 346, 63-69.

McDonough, L. & Mandler, J. M. (1994). Very long-term recall in infants: Infantile amnesia reconsidered. Memory, 2, 339-352.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L. (1995). Long-term recall in infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 59, 457-474.

McDonough, L., Mandler, J. M., McKee, R. D., & Squire, L. (1995). The deferred imitation task as a nonverbal measure of declarative memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 92, 7580-7584.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L. (1996). Drinking and driving don't mix: Inductive generalization in infancy. Cognition, 59, 307-335.

Mandler, J. M. (1998). Babies think before they speak. Human Development, 41, 116-126.

Mandler, J. M. (1998). Whatever happened to meaning? Commentary on Millikan: A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs, and real kinds. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 21, 79-80.

Mandler, J. M. (1998). On theory and modeling. Developmental Science, 1, 196-197.

McDonough, L. & Mandler, J. M. (1998). Inductive generalization in 9- and 11-month olds. Developmental Science, 1, 227-232.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L. (1998). On developing a knowledge base in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1274-1288.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L. (1998). Studies in inductive inference in infancy. Cognitive Psychology, 37, 60-96.

Choi, S., McDonough, L., Bowerman, M., & Mandler, J. M. (1999). Early sensitivity to language-specific spatial categories in English and Korean. Cognitive Development, 14,241-268.

Mandler, J. M. (1999). Seeing is not the same as thinking: Commentary on “Making sense of infant categorization.” Developmental Review, 19, 297-306.

Mandler, J. M. (2000). Perceptual and conceptual processes in infancy. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1, 3-36.

Excerpted in M. Mason (Ed.), Taking sides (pp. 90-98). Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill/ Dushkin.

Mandler, J. M. (2000). Reply to the commentaries on perceptual and conceptual processes in infancy. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1, 67-79.

Mandler, J. M. (2000). What “global to basic” trend? Commentary on perceptually based approaches to early categorization. Infancy, 1, 99-110.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L. (2000). Advancing downward to the basic level. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1, 379-403.

McDonough, L., Choi, S., & Mandler, J. M. (2003). Understanding spatial relations: flexible infants, lexical adults. Cognitive Psychology, 46, 229-259.

Mandler, J. M. (2004). A summary of The foundations of mind: Origins of conceptual thought. Developmental Science, 7, 499-505.

Mandler, J. M. (2004). On the other hand.... Developmental Science, 7, 516-517.

Mandler, J. M. (2004). Thought before language. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 508-513.

Mandler, J. M. (2005). A confusion between understanding and understanding symbols. Developmental Science, 8, 315-316.

Mandler, J. M. (2007). On the origins of the conceptual system. American Psychologist, 62, 741-751.

Mandler, J. M. (2008). On the birth and growth of concepts. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 207-230.

Mandler, J. M. (2008). Infant concepts revisited. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 269-280.

Mandler, J. M. (2008). Some suggested additions to the semantic cognition model. Behavioral and Brain Science,31, 721-722 .

Mandler, J. M. (2010).The spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Language & Cognition, 2, 21-44.