Recent research in brain development and cognitive development leads to an apparent paradox. One set of recent experiments suggests that infants are well-endowed with sophisticated mechanisms for analyzing the world; another set of recent experiments suggests that brain development is extremely flexible. In this paper, I review various ways of resolving the implicit tension between the two, and close with a proposal for a novel computational approach to reconciling nativism with developmental flexibility.
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Marcus, G. F. (2001). Plasticity and Nativism: Towards a Resolution of an Apparent Paradox (pp. 368–382). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44597-8_27
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