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Rethinking Innateness

A Connectionist Perspective on Development

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ID19610552
AuthorsJeffrey L Elman (0000-0002-8072-2294), Jeffrey Elman, Elizabeth Bates (0000-0001-8694-8078), Mark H Johnson (0000-0003-4229-2585), Elizabeth A Bates, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Annette Karmiloff‐Smith, Domenico Parisi (0009-0009-7331-9913), Kim Plunkett (0000-0003-0216-7480)
Year1996
Pages468
Publication date1996-10-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRethinking Innateness (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/5929.001.0001
OpenAlexW4232516125
Open LibraryOL978292M
ISBN9780262272292
LanguageEN
Citations received219

Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way. One of the key contributions of Rethinking Innateness is a taxonomy of ways in which a behavior can be innate. These include constraints at the level of representation, architecture, and timing; typically, behaviors arise through the interaction of constraints at several of these levels.The ideas are explored through dynamic models inspired by a new kind of "developmental connectionism," a marriage of connectionist models and developmental neurobiology, forming a new theoretical framework for the study of behavioral development. While relying heavily on the conceptual and computational tools provided by connectionism, Rethinking Innateness also identifies ways in which these tools need to be enriched by closer attention to biology. Bradford Books imprint

Cognition · Cognitive science · Conceptual Blending · Connectionism · Domain (mathematical analysis) · Epistemology · Key (lock) · Psychological nativism · Representation (politics) · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Mathematics · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Behavior · Behavioural theory (Behaviourism) · Biologie · Cognitie · Cognition & cognitive psychology · Cognitive Psychology · Connectionisme · Connexionnisme · Developmental · Entwicklungspsychologie · Erfelijkheid en omgeving · Family & Relationships · General · Hérédité et milieu · Innéisme (psychologie) · Instinktives Verhalten · Interpersonal relations · Konnektionismus · Lernen · Life Stages · Lifespan Development · Linguistik · Nativism (Psychology) · Nativisme (Psychologie) · Nature and nurture · Neuropsychology · Ontwikkelingsbiologie · Ontwikkelingspsychologie · Psychology & Psychiatry · Social sciences

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