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Constructing minds: The development of mindreading abilities in typical and atypical trajectories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

Ruth Campos  and
María Sotillo
Ruth Campos
Affiliation:
Basic Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Facultad de Psicología, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain. ruth.campos@uam.esinnova.decp.uam.es/main.php?id=189maria.sotillo@uam.esinnova.decp.uam.es/main.php?id=142
María Sotillo
Affiliation:
Basic Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Facultad de Psicología, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain. ruth.campos@uam.esinnova.decp.uam.es/main.php?id=189maria.sotillo@uam.esinnova.decp.uam.es/main.php?id=142
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Abstract

From our deep interest in the neuroconstructivist framework, we would like to comment on two fundamental aspects of Mareschal et al.'s work: the role of neuroconstructivism for clinical work with people suffering from developmental disorders; and the relation between the process of progressive specialization and the increasing abstraction of representations in development.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 336 - 337
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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