Neuroconstructivismis a theoretical framework for cognitive development that emphasizes the closeinteractions between experience and structural development of the brain. Whereas all connectionist models involve some sort of adaptation to theenvironment, in most models this is limited to changing the strength of apre-determined set of connections between a fixed pool of units. Neurocontructivist models allow for more large-scale structural changes thatinvolve the insertion and deletion of units and connections while the modellearns a task. These types of models have been shown to be far more powerfullearners that models with static architectures, and they have been used togenerate predictions of the link between cognitive and neural development inthe brain.
See Cognitive development, , Cognitive neuroscience, Computational models, Connectionism, Connectionist models, Dynamical systems approaches, Neural net, Space code principle