Main Campus - Gladfelter Hall
Room: 10th floor

Piaget offered a constructivist answer to the nativist-empiricist debate, for the spatial domain as for many others. However, in the past few decades, there has been accumulating evidence questioning Piaget's way of conceptualizing spatial knowledge, and indicating earlier competence than he postulated. In fact, geometric representation has been argued by Spelke to be part of what she calls “core knowledge”. In this talk, I will review the nativist-empiricist debate regarding spatial development and propose a neoconstructivist alternative to nativism.