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"This text asks the question, what does it really mean to say that a behaviour is innate? The authors describe a framework in which interactions occurring at all levels give rise to emergent forms and behaviours. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way. The authors explore their ideas 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 behavioural development."

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"""Rethinking Innateness is a milestone as important as theappearance ten years ago of the PDP books. More integratedin its structure, more biological in its approach, this bookprovides a new theoretical framework for cognition that isbased on dynamics, growth, and learning. Study this book if youare interested in how minds emerge from developing brains."" Terrence J. Sejnowski, Professor, Salk Institute forBiological Studies"

Rethinking Innateness is a milestone as important as theappearance ten years ago of the PDP books. More integratedin its structure, more biological in its approach, this bookprovides a new theoretical framework for cognition that isbased on dynamics, growth, and learning. Study this book if youare interested in how minds emerge from developing brains. Terrence J. Sejnowski, Professor, Salk Institute forBiological Studies

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Formerly a research collaborator of Piaget and Inhelder at Geneva University, Annette Karmiloff-Smith is Senior Research Scientist with Special Appointment at the MRC Cognitive Development Unit in London, and Professor of Psychology at University College, London.

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