Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Domain-General Learning or Domain-Specific Constraints?
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Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Domain-General Learning or Domain-Specific Constraints?
The issue of how people acquire knowledge in the course of individual development has fascinated researchers for thousands of years. Perhaps the earliest recorded effort to put forth a theoretical account belongs to Plato, who famously advocated the idea that knowledge of many abstract categories (e.g., ‘‘equivalence’’) is innate. Although Plato argued with his contemporaries who advocated the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01132.x