Neuroconstructivism, with many epistemological overlaps with Piagetian constructivism but
incorporating knowledge of brain structure and function, argues that if the adult brain is in …

For years, the view that the human cognitive system is as a Swiss army knife with innately
specified functional modules that come online one by one or can be impaired independently …

In Section 1, I introduce three views that explain human cognitive development from different
standpoints: Marcus's neo-nativism, standard neuroconstructivism, and neo …

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

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 …

The study of genetic developmental disorders originally seemed to hold the promise for
those of a nativist persuasion of demonstrating pure dissociations between different …

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

This paper maintains that neither a domain-general nor a domain-specific framework is
appropriate for furthering our understanding of human evolution and ontogenesis. Rather …

Upshot: We point out that the significance of the neurophenomenological approach to the
“hard problem” of consciousness is underrated and misunderstood by the authors of this …

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