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Hatano, Giyoo – New Directions for Child Development, 1997
Focuses on three main issues emerging from studies of conceptual development: (1) young children's naive theories of the world; (2) how innate constraints in conceptual development work; and (3) how innate and sociocultural constraints are integrated. Maintains that early development of core domains of thought (naive psychology, physics, and…
Descriptors: Biology, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development

Fowler, William – New Directions for Child Development, 1986
Examines the early learning experiences of great men and women mathematicians to determine whether their lives were stimulated in symbol modes that generated semiautonomous cognitive systems of acquiring, processing, and originating vast complexities of abstract mathematical concepts. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development