Biology and Knowledge Revisited

This book is part of the Jean Piaget Symposia. It focuses on classic issues between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development and their neurological substrates. Specifically, it focuses on the experience-contingent, experience dependent nature of brain development and its evolution.

Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, Constance Milbrath

Contents: Preface. 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.