ABSTRACT
This chapter examines studies that have looked at cognitive capacities in infants in several such domains, with a special focus on converging evidence provided by behavioral and neuroimaging studies. The neuroimaging studies we review utilize electrophysiology techniques and hemodynamic measurements. Behavioral studies have been largely concerned with understanding early cognitive capacities and constraints on such object individuation. In adults, the intraparietal sulcus in the posterior parietal region has been shown to represent approximate numerical information, irrespective of the sensory modality of the input, or the use of symbolic or non-symbolic representations. Language plays a particularly crucial role in the study of the mind and consciousness, as it allows the communication of mental content, including knowledge and beliefs. A fundamental distinction in how people see the world, is as objects and actions. The perceptual systems encode some algorithms for parsing and grouping the perceptual world into discrete entities, and then assign these entities properties that can be static, or dynamic.
