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

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 …

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 …

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

It is argued that neuroconstructivism offers the strongest middle ground between nativism
and empiricism, and that two domain‐general mechanisms—statistical learning and …

I argue that the historical rupture between paradigms and theories rooted in the acontextual
processing accounts of classical physics (eg, Ebbinghaus, 1885/1913) and those rooted in …

Theories of cognitive development have led to enduring and fierce arguments that have
been long on rhetoric but short on evidence. Constructivist theory has roots in Piagetian …

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

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Jean Mandler set the stage for the preparation of this isssue when she invited me to
organize a symposium on constraints on cognitive development for the 1986meeting of the …