title: Is cognition enough to explain cognitive development?
abstract: Traditional views separate cognitive processes from sensory-motor processes, seeing cognition as amodal, propositional, and compositional, and thus fundamentally different from the processes that underlie perceiving and acting. These were the ideas on which cognitive science was founded 30 years ago. However, advancing discoveries in neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology suggests that cognition may be inseparable from processes of perceiving and acting. From this perspective, this study considers the future of cognitive science with respect to the study of cognitive development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.
authors.forename: Linda B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sheya
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Cognitive development; Dynamic systems; Perception-action