Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science

by Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611147
• ISBN13: 9780262611145
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher