Beyond Modularity A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science

Winner, 1995, the British Psychological Society book Award. Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new 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. 1995 British Psychological Society Book Award A Bradford Book. Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change series

Formerly a research collaborator of Piaget and Inhelder at Geneva University, Annette Karmiloff-Smith is Senior Research Scientist with Special Appointment at the MRC Cognitive Development Unit in London, Professor of Psychology at University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.