Beyond modularity

Beyond modularity: a developmental perspective on cognitive science

by Karmiloff-Smith, Annette

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"Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches, showing how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Beyond modularity : a developmental perspective on cognitive science / Annette Karmiloss-Smith.

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"Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches, showing how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human maind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1999, ©1992.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1999, ©1992.

Notes

"A Bradford Book."

The Physical Object

  • Description:xv, 234 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0262611147, 9780262611145
  • oclc:ocn787386236
  • Dewey Decimal:155.413

Table of Contents

Ch. 1. Taking Development Seriously -- Ch. 2. The Child as a Linguist -- Ch. 3. The Child as a Physicist -- Ch. 4. The Child as a Mathematician -- Ch. 5. The Child as a Psychologist -- Ch. 6. The Child as a Notator -- Ch. 7. Nativism, Domain Specificity, and Piaget's Constructivism -- Ch. 8. Modeling Development: Representational Redescription and Connectionism -- Ch. 9. Concluding Speculations.

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Subjects

Cognition in children Constructivism (Psychology) Modularity (Psychology) in children Nativism (Psychology)

Writers

Karmiloff-Smith, Annette

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