Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Annette Karmiloff-Smith is a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck College, London. She is an expert in developmental disorders, with a particular interest in Williams syndrome.

Her work has been hugely influential in deepening our understanding of developmental disorders. Particularly, she has criticized []

Karmiloff-Smith has argued [] Since developmental disorders arise from problems "during" development (as opposed to damage to a mature system) it follows that we should expect to find performance deficits that are not linked to one particular domain, but rather spread across a whole range of different performance impairments.

Karmiloff-Smith has supported her theories by her research work into Williams syndrome. This rare syndrome was originally thought to manifest itself as abnormally low IQ, accompanied by "normal" ability to process social cues. In a series of papers (eg [] in 1992 and "Rethinking Innateness" [cite book|last=Elman et al|first=Jeffrey|title=Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|year=1996|isbn= 026255030X] with Jeffrey Elman, Mark Johnson, Elizabeth Bates, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett in 1996.

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External links

* [http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/research/DNL/personalpages/annette.html Annette Karmiloff-Smith] at Developmental Neurocognition Lab
* [http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/research/DNL/ Developmental Neurocognition Lab]


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