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How do babies come to know what babies know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2024

David S. Moore Open the ORCID record for David S. Moore [Opens in a new window]  and
David J. Lewkowicz Open the ORCID record for David J. Lewkowicz [Opens in a new window]
David S. Moore*
Affiliation:
Psychology Field Group, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, USA dmoore@pitzer.edu; http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~dmoore/
David J. Lewkowicz
Affiliation:
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA david.lewkowicz@yale.edu; https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/research/autism-and-neurodevelopment/llamb/
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Abstract

Elizabeth Spelke's What Babies Know is a scholarly presentation of core knowledge theory and a masterful compendium of empirical evidence that supports it. Unfortunately, Spelke's principal theoretical assumption is that core knowledge is simply the innate product of cognitive evolution. As such, her theory fails to explicate the developmental mechanisms underlying the emergence of the cognitive systems on which that knowledge depends.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 47 , 2024 , e138
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