Foreword by Jerome Bruner. Preface to the French Edition by Paul Fraisse. Introduction.
Part1: The Role of Visual Structures in the Organisation of Spatial Relationships
1. The Evolution of Perceptual Structures
2. The Spatial Relationships Between Structures in Three-Dimensional Space
3. The Perception of Form Orientation
4. Intrafigural Spatial Relationships
5. Perceptual Organisation and the Processes of Identification and Differentiation: The Child’s ‘Syncretism’
Part2: The Analysis of Visual Structures in Terms of their Properties
6. The Role of Verbal Mediators in Discrimination Learning
7. Selective Attention
8. The Emergence of Differentiators
Part3: Strategies of Exploration and Criteria of Judgment
9. An Examination of Some Parameters of Visuo-Motor Exploration
10. The Role of Perceptual Activity in the Genesis of Representational Structures
11. Identity Criteria of Equivalence and Difference. General Conclusions. Bibliography. Index.