1st Edition

Taking Development Seriously A Festschrift for Annette Karmiloff-Smith Neuroconstructivism and the Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Understanding the Emergence of Mind

332 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This influential festschrift honours the legacy of Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a seminal thinker in the field of child development and a pioneer in developmental cognitive neuroscience. The current volume brings together many of the researchers, collaborators and students who worked with Professor Karmiloff-Smith to show how her ideas have influenced and continue to influence their own... Read more

1 Annette Karmiloff-Smith: Scientist, mother and friend

Michael S. C. Thomas, Denis Mareschal and Victoria C. P. Knowland

2 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Relative Clause Comprehension in Children

Susan Goldin-Meadow and Annette Karmiloff-Smith

3 On the construction of the developmental problem in Karmiloff-Smith's theory

Jean-Paul Bronckart

4 Intelligence: Taking the dynamics of development seriously

Frank D. Baughman and Mike Anderson

5 Being a mentor

Kang Lee

6. Biological Evolution's Use of Representational Redescription

Aaron Sloman

7. Revisiting Rethinking Innateness: 20 years on

Mark H. Johnson

8. Representational Redescription: The Case of the Early Mental Lexicon

Kim Plunkett

9. Representational redescription: An appreciation of one of Annette Karmiloff-Smith’s key contributions to developmental science

Jay McClelland

10. Prospective and longitudinal studies of the earliest origins of language learning impairments: Annette Karmiloff-Smith’s ongoing legacy

April A. Benasich and Katherine Wolfert

11. Rethinking the Attention Homunculus through Atypical Development

Gaia Scerif

12. What has changed in 18 years? Reflections on Ansari & Karmiloff-Smith (2002)

Daniel Ansari

13. Quo Vadis Modularity in the 2020s?

Michael S. C. Thomas and Daniel Brady

14. An analytical approach to visuospatial cognition: What can neurodevelopmental disorders tell us about developmental pathways?

Emily K. Farran

15. Age matters

Yonata Levy

16. Aligning cognitive studies in mouse models and human infants/toddlers: The case of Down syndrome

Hana D’Souza, Daniel Brady, Frances K. Wiseman, Mark A. Good, Michael S. C. Thomas and The LonDownS Consortium 

17. Sleep to remember: Typical and atypical sleep and constraints on representational development

Katharine Hughes and Jamie Edgin

18. The debate on screen time: An empirical case study in infant-directed video.

Tim J. Smith, Parag K. Mital & Tessa M. Dekker

19. Intellectual Development from a Neuroconstructivist Perspective: Never missing the whole picture

Luca Rinaldi

20. Translation of Scientific Insights into Better Nappies and Consumer Education for Healthy Infant Development and Better Sleep

Frank Wiesemann

Biography

Michael S. C. Thomas is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Denis Mareschal is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Victoria C. P. Knowland is Lecturer in Speech and Language Science at University of Newcastle, UK.