Seeing the world through a third eye: Developmental systems theory looks beyond the nativist-empiricist debate

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-105

  Spencer, John P ^a,b   Samuelson, Larissa K ^a   Blumberg, Mark S ^a   Mcmurray, Bob ^a   Robinson, Scott R ^a   Bruce Tomblin, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental systems; Empiricism; Epigenesis; Nativism; Neural development

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749122034     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00087.x     Document Type: Note

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