Innateness and Emergentism

A Companion to Cognitive Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 590-601

  Bates, Elizabeth ^a   Elman, Jeffrey L ^b   Johnson, Mark H ^c   Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^c   Parisi, Domenico ^d   Plunkett, Kim ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MRC Cognitive Development Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain specificity; Innateness and localization; Learnability; Simple interactions; Species specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052770097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164535.ch46     Document Type: Chapter

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