Intelligence as a Developing Function: A Neuroconstructivist Approach
Abstract
:1. Introduction
“Intelligence constitutes the state of equilibrium towards which tend all the successive adaptations of a sensori-motor and cognitive nature, as well as all assimilatory and accommodatory interactions between the organism and the environment.”
2. Intelligence: General Caveats
2.1. On Some Definitions of Intelligence
2.2. The Importance of Intelligence Testing
3. Intelligence across Development: A Dynamic Concept
3.1. Intelligence Testing across Development
3.2. Intelligence Fluctuations across Development
3.3. Neural Changes Associated with Intelligence across Development
3.4. Following Developmental Trajectories
4. A Neuroconstructivist Approach to Intelligence
4.1. Probabilistic Epigenesis
4.2. Neural Constructivism
4.3. Interactive Specialization
4.4. Embodiment
4.5. Ensocialment
4.6. Toward an Integrated Framework: Reaching a Dynamic Balance
4.7. Predictions and Directions for Future Research
5. Cascading Effects on Life Outcome
6. Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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1 | Piaget was the first psychologist who theorized intelligence within a developmental framework. With admirable foresight, he postulated that intelligence would emerge from a dynamic interplay between the individual and the environment. Ironically, after decades of Nature–Nurture debate, we are still conceptualizing intelligence in similar terms. However, thanks to the recent emergence of the developmental cognitive neuroscience, the neuroepigenetics and the behavioral genetics fields, we can now more accurately define the strict interplay between the developing organism and the environment, which are viewed as active entities exerting cascading effects on intellectual functioning. |
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