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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series |
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Minnesota symposia on child psychology (Series)
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Constraints, Modules, and Domain Specificity: An Introduction; A General Backdrop; Domain Specificity; Constraints and Domain Specificity; Modularity and Constraints; Fodorian Modules; Innateness, Modules, Constraints, and Domain Specificity: Variation and Extensions; References; 2. Modularity and Constraints in Early Lexical Acquisition: Evidence From Children's Early Language and Gesture; The Ontogeny of Language and Gesture; Subjects; Methods; Results; Discussion and Conclusion; References |
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3. Constraints on Word Learning: Speculations About Their Nature, Origins, and Domain SpecificityEvidence for the Whole-Object, Taxonomic, and Mutual Exclusivity Assumptions; Constraints on Learning as Default Assumptions; Domain Specificity; Possible Origins of Word-Learning Assumptions; References; 4. The Origins of an Autonomous Biology; Distinguishing the Biological World; Biology Out of Nothing: The Case of Concepts of Kinds; Troubles With Typicality; Inheritance; Growth-Paths of Origin and Kindhood; Disease-Patterns of Contagion; Disease-Types of Possible Agents; Essentialism Again |
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ConclusionsReferences; 5. Language, Affect, and Social Order; Chomsky's View of Language; Affect Theory; The Communicative Interchanges of One Family; Appendix; References; 6. The Logical and Extrinsic Sources of Modularity; Modularity and Language; Are We Making Mountains Out of Modules?; The Central Problem and Thesis; Computational Modularity-Processing Single Versus Multiple Representation; The Generality of the Processing Differences in the Cerebral Hemispheres; Familial Handedness and Variation in Kinds of Linguistic Knowledge; Biological Variation in Modes of Abduction |
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Spatial Learning: Two Ways to Get There From HereThe Relation Between Abduction and Spatial Mechanisms; Conclusion and Summary; References; 7. Beyond Modules; The Question of Definitions and Criteria; The Question of Relations Among Segments; The Question of Implications; 8. What Do Developmental Psychologists Really Want?; Rootedness; Change; Evidence; Method; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher functions carried out by domain-specific, specialized, cognitive subsystems, rather than a highly general cognitive learning and inferring device? To date, ideas and proposals about modularity have been best developed in the study of vision and grammar. In the present volume, the usefulness of approaches employing modularity and domain specificity are further explored in papers on the development of biological thought, word meaning, symbols, and emot |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Maratsos, Michael
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| ISBN |
9781317782216 |
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1317782216 |
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