The philosophical innateness debate has long relied onpsychological evidence. For a
century, however, a parallel debate hastaken place within neuroscience. In this paper, I …

This opinion paper suggests that developmental neuroimaging studies investigating
emerging cortical networks for specific cognitive functions can contribute substantially to our …

Learning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for
perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet …

Human intelligence reveals both remarkable stability and nimble flexibility. Stability emerges
from the incorporation of the past into the present. Flexibility, in turn, requires an …

The central focus in debates over broad evolutionary psychology is whether mental abilities
can be understood as adaptive functions (Davies, 1996, p. 446). Narrow evolutionary …

Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source
of control, has emphasized plasticity, the quality by which our brains develop and change …

The search for a so-called unified or integrated theory has long served as a goal for some
psychologists, even if the search is often implicit. But if the established sciences do not have …

'Classical'connectionist models of development (eg, Elman, Bates, Johnson, Karmiloff-Smith,
Parisi, and Plunkett, 1996) tend to view behavioural change in the individual as due only to …

For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist
framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical …

Throughout the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain is fully
developed, organized in fixed and immutable function‐specific neural circuits. Since the …