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  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780262045551
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $140.00

The Working Mind

Meaning and Mental Attention in Human Development



A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence.

A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence.

In The Working Mind, Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson propose a general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally and by doing so clarifies the nature of human intelligence. Pascual-Leone and Johnson explain "from within" (that is, from a subject's own processing perspective) cognitive developmental stages of growth, describing key causal factors that can account for the emergence of the working mind as a functional totality. Among these factors is a maturationally growing mental attention.

  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780262045551
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $140.00