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Jean Piaget Symposium Series: Volume 31
BIOLOGY
AND KNOWLEDGE REVISITED: From
Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis
Editors: Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, and Constance Milbrath
ISBN: 0-8058-4627-1
Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates. Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the relationship between evolution and development, and bring powerful new conceptual systems and research data to bear on understanding the problem of experience-contingent brain development and evolution. They focus on processes of phenotype construction--which fills the gap between genes and behavior--and demonstrate that evolutionary psychological models of innate mental modules are incompatible with what is known about these processes. This book presents exciting new approaches to the development and evolution of cognitive and linguistic abilities. Returning to the broad evolutionary theme of a previous meeting, the symposium focused on specifically constructivist approaches to neurogenesis and language acquisition, and their evolution. It was organized around ideas about the relationship between development and evolution raised in Piaget's books. Treated in the chapters of this book, research in this arena has yielded cutting-edge insight into behavioral influences on brain plasticity. Two of its subthemes run throughout--a critique of modularity models popular among evolutionary psychologies and the prescient yet flawed nature of Piaget's critique of the modern synthesis of evolution. As a result, Biology and Knowledge Revisited is intended for developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, biological anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists, and philosophers of science. [visit Publisher's web site]
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- S.T. Parker
Piaget's Legacy in Cognitive Constructivism, Niche Construction, and Phenotype Development and Evolution - S.T. Parker
Piaget's Phenocopy Model Revisited: A Brief History of Ideas About the Origins of Adaptive Genetic Variations - T.W. Deacon
Beyond Piaget's Phenocopy: A Baby in the Lamarckian Bath - K.R. Gibson
Human Brain Evolution: Developmental Perspectives - C.E.
MacLeod
Cerebellar Anatomy and Function: From the Corporeal to the Cognitive - V. Gallese
From Mirror Neurons to the Shared Manifold Hypothesis: A Neurophysiological Account of Intersubjectivity - E. Bates
Plasticity, Localization, and Language Development - D.I. Slobin
From Ontogenesis to Phylogenesis: What Can Child Language Tell Us About Language Evolution? - R.J. Senghas, A. Senghas, J.E. Pyers
The Emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Questions of Development, Acquisition, and Evolution - A.
Karmiloff-Smith, M. Thomas
Can Developmental Disorders Be Used to Bolster Claims From Evolutionary Psychology? A Neuroconstructivist Approach
