Taking development seriously; the child as a linguist; the child as a physicist; the child as a mathematician; the child as a psychologist; the child as a notator; nativism, domain specificity, and Piaget's constructivism; modelling development - representational redescription and connectionism; concluding speculations.
This book has an important central thesis and Karmiloff-Smith argues impressively well in support of it. She focuses on one of the truly distinctive features of human cognitive development and makes a powerful case for her claim that cognitive science needs a developmental dimension. -- Margaret Donaldson, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Edinburgh In this engagingly synoptic volume, the author calls on a long and distinguished career to model the development of the child's representational system, and to show that the changes it undergoes are not triggered by failure but by endogenous factors. A coherent picture of the development of the human representational system emerges from an insightful set of experiments. -- David Premack, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
...deserves wide readership by both developmentalists and nondevelopmentalists who need an overview of the state of the art. Clearly and comprehensively, Karmiloff-Smith shows the highly structured ways in which different representational processes emerge from infancy onwards. -- Andrew Whiten Nature
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