Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition (eBook, ePUB)

The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 25
Redaktion: Gunnar, Megan R.; Maratsos, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 emotional development, as well as in the core area of grammar itself, by leading researchers in these fields. The volume also contains an introduction to some basic ideas and concepts in the study of modularity and domain-specificity, and some critical discussion of the overall problems of the modularity constraints approach to analyzing development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317782209
• Artikelnr.: 40529204

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gunnar, Megan R.; Maratsos, Michael

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. M. Maratsos
Constraints
Modules
and Domain Specificity: An Introduction. L.A. Petitto
Modularity and Constraints in Early Lexical Acquisition: Evidence From Children's Early Language and Gestures. E.M. Markman
Constraints on Word Learning: Speculations About Their Nature
Origins
and Domain Specificity. F.C. Keil
The Origins of an Autonomous Biology. C. Malatesta-Magai
B. Dorval
Language
Affect
and Social Order. T. Bever
The Logical and Extrinsic Sources of Modularity. J. Goodnow
Beyond Modules. R.S. Siegler
What Do Developmental Psychologists Really Want?