The well-designed child

Artificial Intelligence 172 (18):2003-2014 (2008)
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This article is inspired by recent psychological studies confirming that a child is not born a blank slate but has important innate capabilities. An important part of the ``learning'' required to deal with the three dimensional world of objects, processes, and other beings was done by evolution. Each child need not do this learning itself.

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10.1016/j.artint.2008.10.001

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