Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - June 2011 - Volume 34, Issue 03  

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Can developmental psychology provide a blueprint for the study of adult cognition?

Arthur B. Markmana1

a1 Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. markman@psy.utexas.edu http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/FACULTY/Markman/index.html

Abstract

In order to develop sophisticated models of the core domains of knowledge that support complex cognitive processing in infants and children, developmental psychologists have mapped out the content of these knowledge domains. This research strategy may provide a blueprint for advancing research on adult cognitive processing. I illustrate this suggestion with examples from analogical reasoning and decision making.

(Online publication May 19 2011)

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