Modularity of mind is the notion that a mind may, at least in part, be composed of innate neural structures or mental modules which have distinct, established...
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programming, modularity refers to the compartmentalization and interrelation of the parts of a software package. In software design, modularity refers to...
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Evolutionary psychology (redirect from Environment of evolutionary adaptedness)
poisons, and the kidneys evolved to filter turbid fluids there is modularity of mind in that different psychological mechanisms evolved to solve different...
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Jerry Fodor (category American philosophers of mind)
of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modularity of...
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Modularity of Mind, Fodor proposed the Hypothesis of Modest Modularity, stating that input systems such as perception and language are modular, whereas...
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relevance to the modularity debate has recently been brought to the fore by Norris, Cutler and McQueen’s (2001) report on the Merge (?) model of speech perception...
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Keith Laws (category Academics of the University of Hertfordshire)
Evidence for Modularity of Mind'. He is a Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), Fellow of the Higher Education...
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of modularity of mind, but is considered more general in that it does not necessarily entail all the assumptions of Fodorian modularity (e.g., informational...
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Supporters of neuroconstructivism, such as Annette Karmiloff-Smith, argue against innate modularity of mind, the notion that a brain is composed of innate...
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2024-05-02. Retrieved 2024-05-04. Robbins, Philip (2017). "Modularity of Mind". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University...
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Cognitive module (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
resolve cognitive tasks. It is used in theories of the modularity of mind and the closely related society of mind theory and was developed by Jerry Fodor. It...
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as the modularity debate or modularity of mind) has been an ongoing debate for evolutionary psychologists. The modularity of mind or modularity debate...
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part of the body, can handwritten notes become part of the mind? Mind-body dualism: Is the mind distinct from the body? Modularity of mind: Is the mind composed...
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diagnosis of the causes of human suffering. He argues the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self...
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Phrenology (redirect from Bump of Locality)
JA. (1983) The Modularity of Mind. MIT Press. pp. 14, 23, 131 Simpson, D. (2005) "Phrenology and the Neurosciences: Contributions of F. J. Gall and J...
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Faculty psychology (category History of psychology)
formulation of phrenology, albeit more implicitly. More recently faculty psychology has been revived by Jerry Fodor's concept of modularity of mind, the hypothesis...
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Peterborough, Ont., Broadview Press. Fodor, Jerry A. (1983). The Modularity of Mind: An Essay in Faculty Psychology. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-56025-9...
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or "modularity" occurs in the influential book "Modularity of Mind" by philosopher Jerry Fodor. A detailed application of this idea to the case of vision...
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domain specificity or modularity of mind. Modularity implies that different cognitive faculties may be largely independent of one another, and thus develop...
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Meme (redirect from Evolution of an idea)
possibility of incompatibility between modularity of mind and memetics.[citation needed] In their view, minds structure certain communicable aspects of the ideas...
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Functional specialization (brain) (redirect from Localization of brain function)
Fodor expanded the initial notion of phrenology by creating his Modularity of the Mind theory. The Modularity of the Mind theory indicates that distinct...
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adopts a rugged styling, with extensive use of angular, boxy lines, and was designed with modularity in mind as owners through body builders are able to...
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Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids)...
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Gen IV engines were designed with modularity in mind, and several engines of the two generations share a large number of interchangeable parts. Gen V engines...
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neuropsychology (see also Localization of brain function, Brodmann's areas, Neuro-imaging, Modularity of mind or Faculty psychology). Polygraph ("lie...
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From the evolutionary perspective, evolution resulted in variations of the human mind. Natural selection refined these variations based on their beneficence...
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Robert Wright (journalist) (category Critics of New Atheism)
argues that the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman). Wright lives in Princeton...
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philosophy Michael Devitt Michael Dummett Modal property Modistae Modularity of mind Moritz Schlick Mumbo Jumbo (phrase) Naming and Necessity Nelson Goodman...
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Language module (section Meaning of a module)
between anatomical modularity, which proposes there is one 'area' in the brain that deals with this processing, and functional modularity that obviates anatomical...
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Edinburgh Phrenological Society (redirect from Phrenological Society of Edinburgh)
Phrenologists discounted supernatural explanations and stressed the modularity of mind. The Edinburgh phrenologists also acted as midwives to evolutionary...
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