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In defense of learning by selection: Neurobiological and behavioral evidence revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

G. Dehaene-Lambertz  and
Stanislas Dehaene
G. Dehaene-Lambertz
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, 75270 Paris cedex 06, [email protected]
Stanislas Dehaene
Affiliation:
INSERM U334, CHFJ CEA, 91401 Orsay, [email protected]
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Abstract

Quartz & Sejnowski's (Q&S's) constructivist manifesto promotes a return to an extreme form of empiricism. In defense of learning by selection, we argue that at the neurobiological level all the data presented by Q&S in support of their constructive model are in fact compatible with a model comprising multiple overlapping stages of synaptic overproduction and selection. We briefly review developmental studies at the behavioral level in humans providing evidence in favor of a selectionist view of development.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 560 - 561
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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