TY  - GEN
N2  - 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. She shows how each can enrich the other and 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. In Beyond Modularity she treats cognitive development as a serious theoretical tool, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood.Language, physics, mathematics, commonsense psychology, drawing, and writing are explored in terms of the relationship between the innate capacities of the human mind and subsequent representational change which allows for such flexibility and creativity. Karmiloff-Smith also takes up the issue of the extent to which development involves domain-specific versus domain-general processes. She concludes with discussions of nativism and domain specificity in relation to Piagetian theory and connectionism, and shows how a developmental perspective can pinpoint what is missing from connectionist models of the mind.
AB  - 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. She shows how each can enrich the other and 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. In Beyond Modularity she treats cognitive development as a serious theoretical tool, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood.Language, physics, mathematics, commonsense psychology, drawing, and writing are explored in terms of the relationship between the innate capacities of the human mind and subsequent representational change which allows for such flexibility and creativity. Karmiloff-Smith also takes up the issue of the extent to which development involves domain-specific versus domain-general processes. She concludes with discussions of nativism and domain specificity in relation to Piagetian theory and connectionism, and shows how a developmental perspective can pinpoint what is missing from connectionist models of the mind.
T1  - Beyond modularity :a developmental perspective on cognitive science /
DA  - 1996, ©1992.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Karmiloff-Smith, Annette.
ET  - 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
CN  - BF723.C5
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 1996, ©1992.
N1  - "A Bradford book."
ID  - 1385898
KW  - Cognition in children.
KW  - Modularity (Psychology) in children.
KW  - Constructivism (Psychology)
KW  - Nativism (Psychology)
KW  - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
KW  - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
SN  - 0585020442
SN  - 9780585020440
SN  - 9780262276740
SN  - 0262276747
TI  - Beyond modularity :a developmental perspective on cognitive science /
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