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Distinguishing proximal from distal causes is useful and compatible with accounts of compensatory processing in developmental disorders of cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Nancy Ewald Jackson  and
Max Coltheart
Nancy Ewald Jackson
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 nancy-jackson@uiowa.edu
Max Coltheart
Affiliation:
Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australiamax@maccs.mq.edu.au http://www.rosella.bhs.mq.edu.au/~max/
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Abstract

Models of the architecture of mature cognitive systems can inform the study of normal and disordered cognitive development, if one distinguishes between proximal and distal causes of performance. The assumption of residual normality need not be made in order to apply adult models to performance early in development, because these models can be modified to reflect the results of compensatory processing.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , December 2002 , pp. 758 - 759
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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