Contents
I BIOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO COGNITION
1 Lessons From Animal Learning for the Study of Cognitive Development
C.R. Gallistel, Ann L. Brown, Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman, and Frank C. Keil
Peter Marler
3 Neuropsychological Insights into the Meaning of Object Concept Development
Adele Diamond
4 Contrasting Concepts of the Critical Period for Language
Elissa L. Newport
II INNATE KNOWLEDGE AND BEYOND
5 Physical Knowledge in Infancy: Reflections on Piaget’s Theory
Elizabeth S. Spelke
6 Beyond Modularity: Innate Constraints and Developmental Change
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
7 Constraining Nativist Inferences about Cognitive Capacities
Kurt W. Fischer and Thomas Bidell
8 The Emergence of Theoretical Beliefs as Constraints on Concepts
Frank C. Keil
9 Knowledge Acquisition: Enrichment or Conceptual Change?
Susan Carey
10 Epigenetic Foundations of Knowledge Structures: Initial and Transcendent Constructions
Rochel Gelman