Précis of Neuroconstructivism: How the brain constructs cognition

S Sirois, M Spratling, MSC Thomas… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition proposes a unifying framework for
the study of cognitive development that brings together (1) constructivism (which views …

The neural basis of cognitive development: A constructivist manifesto

SR Quartz, TJ Sejnowski - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1997 - cambridge.org
How do minds emerge from developing brains? According to “neural constructivism,” the
representational features of cortex are built from the dynamic interaction between neural …

Précis of Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science

A Karmiloff-Smith - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1994 - cambridge.org
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 …

Is there an implicit level of representation?

A Vinter, P Perruchet - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1994 - cambridge.org
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 …

The challenge of representational redescription

TR Shultz - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1994 - cambridge.org
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 …

The concept of coregulation between neurobehavioral subsystems: The logic interplay between excitatory and inhibitory ends

SG Ferber - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2008 - cambridge.org
Neuroconstructivism, Vol. 1: How the Brain Constructs Cognition implies that brain
functioning depends on biofeedback and ecological trajectories. Using the building blocks of …

Perceptual symbol systems

LW Barsalou - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1999 - cambridge.org
Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then,
developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal …

Brains evolution and neurolinguistic preconditions

WK Wilkins, J Wakefield - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1995 - cambridge.org
This target article presents a plausible evolutionary scenario for the emergence of the neural
preconditions for language in the hominid lineage. In pleistocene primate lineages there …

Précis of how children learn the meanings of words

P Bloom - Behavioral and brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Normal children learn tens of thousands of words, and do so quickly and efficiently, often in
highly impoverished environments. In How Children Learn the Meanings of Words, I argue …

Trading spaces: Computation, representation, and the limits of uninformed learning

A Clark, C Thornton - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997 - cambridge.org
Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are
regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …