Taking Development Seriously A Festschrift for Annette Karmiloff-Smith by Thomas, Michael S. C.; Mareschal, Denis; Knowland, Victoria;

Short description:

This festschrift honours Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a seminal thinker in the field of child development and a pioneer in developmental neuroscience. It brings together many of the researchers, collaborators and students who worked with Dr Karmiloff-Smith to show how her ideas have influenced and continue to influence their own research.

Long description:

This influential festschrift honours the legacy of Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a seminal thinker in the field of child development and a pioneer in developmental cognitive neuroscience. The current volume brings together many of the researchers, collaborators and students who worked with Professor Karmiloff-Smith to show how her ideas have influenced and continue to influence their own research.

Over four parts, each covering a different phase or domain of Karmiloff-Smith’s research career, leading developmental psychologists in cognition, neuroscience and computer science reflect on her extensive contribution, from her early work with Piaget in Geneva to her innovative research project investigating children with Down syndrome to understand the mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease. The chapters provide a mix of cutting-edge science and reminiscence, providing a fascinating insight into the historical contexts in which many of Annette’s theoretical insights arose, including such ideas as the microgenetic approach, representational redescription and neuroconstructivism. The chapters also provide updates about how earlier theoretical ideas have stood the test of time, and present unpublished data from the early years of Annette’s career.

Taking Development Seriously is essential reading for students and scholars in child development and developmental neuroscience.

Table of Contents:

1. Annette Karmiloff-Smith: Scientist, mother and friend  2. The Cognitive Underpinnings of Relative Clause Comprehension in Children  3. On the construction of the developmental problem in Karmiloff-Smith's theory  4. Intelligence: Taking the dynamics of development seriously  5. Being a mentor  6. Biological Evolution's Use of Representational Redescription  7. Revisiting Rethinking Innateness: 20 years on  8. Representational Redescription: The Case of the Early Mental Lexicon  9. Representational redescription: An appreciation of one of Annette Karmiloff-Smith’s key contributions to developmental science  10. Prospective and longitudinal studies of the earliest origins of language learning impairments: Annette Karmiloff-Smith’s ongoing legacy  11. Rethinking the Attention Homunculus through Atypical Development  12. What has changed in 18 years? Reflections on Ansari & Karmiloff-Smith (2002)  13. Quo Vadis Modularity in the 2020s?  14. What can neurodevelopmental disorders tell us about developmental pathways? Realising neuroconstructivist principles now and in the future  15. Age matters  16. Aligning cognitive studies in mouse models and human infants/toddlers: The case of Down syndrome  17. Sleep to remember: Typical and atypical sleep and constraints on representational development  18. The debate on screen time: An empirical case study in infant-directed video  19. Intellectual Development from a Neuroconstructivist Perspective: Never missing the whole picture  20. Translation of Scientific Insights into Better Nappies and Consumer Education for Healthy Infant Development and Better Sleep