Nativist Constraints on Cognitive Processes Called into Question. Review of “Neoconstructivism. The New Science of Cognitive Development' edited by Scott Johnson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009” [Book Review]

Constructivist Foundations 5 (2):104--105 (2010)
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Upshot: Recent research on young children’s cognitive development supports the viability of a neoconstructivist model of learning. These new approaches support a bottom-up account of knowledge acquisition that incorporates many constructivist principles and does not support top-down nativist models.

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