What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into
a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to …

This article argues that one dominant position in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and
philosophy about how genetic disorders point to the innate specification of dissociated …

An overview of the emerging discipline of computational developmental psychology,
emphasizing the use of constructivist neural networks. Despite decades of scientific …

How do the representations underlying cognitive skills emerge? It is becoming increasingly
apparent that answering this question requires integration of neural, cognitive and …

Developmental cognitive neuroscience is an evolving field that investigates the relations
between neural and cognitive development. Lying at the intersection of diverse disciplines …

It is a truism that development involves contributions from both genes and environment, but
theories differ with respect to the roles they attribute to each, which deeply affects the ways …

Recent technological advances allow us to measure how the infant brain functions in ways
that were not possible just a decade ago. Although methodological advances are exciting …

A common way of studying developmental disorders is to adopt a static neuropsychological
deficit approach, in which the brain is characterized in terms of a normal brain with some …

This chapter presents a unified model of neurocognitive development beginning with the
differentiation of the first neural cells and extending through the emergence of complex …

We review recent advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of change that underlie
cognitive development. We begin by describing error-driven, self-organizing and …