Beyond Modularity : A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science

Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers a theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches, showing how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition.

Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood.