Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
• Published by: The MIT Press September 25, 1995
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0262611147
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0262611145
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 15.8 ounces

Product Review
". . . deserves wide readership by both developmentalists and nondevelopmentalists who need an overview of the state of the art. Clearly and comprehensively, Karmiloff-Smith shows the highly structured ways in which different representational processes emerge from infancy onwards."
—Andrew Whiten, Nature

Product Description
Winner, 1995, the British Psychological Society book Award.

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 mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood.

1995 British Psychological Society Book Award

A Bradford Book. Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change series