Objective: Since its 2001 publication, a number of issues have been raised about the ICF.
The World Health Organization anticipated the ICF would undergo a continuous process of …

This article reviews the major contributions of dynamic systems theory (DST) in advancing
thinking about development, the empirical insights the theory has generated, and the key …

Executive function plays a foundational role in everyday behaviors across the life span. The
theoretical understanding of executive-function development, however, is still a work in …

It seems that the reception of Conrad Hal Waddington's work never really gathered speed in
mainstream biology. This paper, offering a transdisciplinary survey of approaches using his …

We argue that the nativist–empiricist debate in developmental psychology is distorted, both
theoretically and methodologically, by a shared framework of assumptions concerning the …

Previous developmental accounts of joint object activity identify a qualitative “shift” around 9–
12 months. In a longitudinal study of 26 dyads, videos of joint object interactions at 4, 6, 9 …

Many studies have documented influences of maternal responsiveness on cognitive and
language development. Given the bidirectionality of interactions in caregiver-infant dyads, it …

Adaptive complex team behaviors evolve dynamically and occur in many different
environments. In this study, we examined the role of these behaviors and their relationship …

In its mathematical, methodological, and conceptual grounding, the dynamic systems (DS)
approach to development offers a unique, relationally focused model for understanding …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …