Debates sobre la modularidad en Psicología del Desarrollo: ？Hacia un nuevo constructivismo?

this work communicates some discussions on modularity and its implications in developmental psychology, particularly applied to the understanding of cognitive development. first, we review some reasons for the emergence and expansion of a modular hegemony within the developmental cognitive psychology the last two decades. we examine both assumptions about the mental architecture arising from the theoretical work of fodor (1983 / 1986), as well as empirical research that indicates the existence of innate structures and contents in babies. while reviewing critically various modular models, we consider such hegemony and open lines of the debate. progress of the modularity has led in different directions and disciplines within the cognitive sciences. on the one hand, much of the psychological research was conducted to search for modules, going against the general domain paradigm of long tradition. theorizing was a dramatic turnaround beyond fodor, assuming the hypothesis of massive modularity, which maintains the mind consists essentially (or may be completely) by innate modules for specific purposes. modularity also appears as encouragement of investigations in the field of neurobiology, working steadily on pathological cases such as double dissociations or atypical development (vg. williams syndrome). there are also positions of soft modularity, like the assumption of modularization of karmiloff-smith -which seems to have marked a turning point in the dynamics of theorizing and experimentation on the subject in question. contributions from the paradigm of modularity led to estimate the differences between baby's consideration as a blank slate without any previous knowledge- the piagetian and behaviorist babies, and a new nativist baby, initially much more powerful. for the standard constructivism, mind development occurs by general changes that affect the general structures of representation for all domains, and that operate on all aspects of cognitive system similarl