A deep theoretical tension lies at the heart of developmental cognitive science. Children–
even infants–have abstract structured representations of the world: intuitive theories and …

Beyond modularity attempts a synthesis of Fodor's anticonstructivist nativism and Piaget's
antinativist constructivism. Contra Fodor, I argue that:(1) the study of cognitive development …

How can a learner take ambiguous, noisy, and incomplete information, and from it build
causal, structured, and complete representations? This fundamental question has been …

Empirical studies of cognitive development usually report the abilities that children display at
different ages. The cognitive mechanisms that allow the child to move from one set of …

NS Newcombe's (2011) account of neoconstructivism opposes nativism to everything else—
connectionist and dynamic systems theories, information processing theories, the “theory …

Developmental psychology is ready to blossom into a modern science that focuses on
causal mechanistic explanations of development rather than just describing and classifying …

Over the past 30 years we have discovered an enormous amount about what children know
and when they know it. But the real question for developmental cognitive science is not so …

Arguments over the developmental origins of human knowledge are ancient, founded in the
writings of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. They have also persisted long …

The psychology is that it can produce coherent exciting promise of developmental
explanations of development instead of merely describing behavior. It is, therefore, our …

The desire to explore the origins of human knowledge and to understand the nature of
learning processes motivates many developmental researchers (including myself) to work …