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The Adaptable Mind - What Neuroplasticity and Neural Reuse Tell Us about Language and Cognition (Hardcover)
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The Adaptable Mind - What Neuroplasticity and Neural Reuse Tell Us about Language and Cognition (Hardcover)
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A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the
philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has been
the idea of the mind as a modular system-that is, one consisting of
functionally specialized subsystems responsible for processing
different classes of input, or handling specific cognitive tasks
like vision, language, logic, music, and so on. However, one of the
major achievements of neuroscience has been the discovery that the
brain has incredible powers of renewal and reorganization. This
"neuroplasticity," in its various forms, has challenged many of the
orthodox conceptions of the mind which originally led cognitive
scientists to postulate hardwired mental modules. This book
examines how such discoveries have changed the way we think about
the structure of the mind. It contends that the mind is more supple
than prevailing theories in cognitive science and artificial
intelligence acknowledge. The book uses language as a test case.
The claim that language is cognitively special has often been
understood as the claim that it is underpinned by dedicated-and
innate-cognitive mechanisms. Zerilli offers a fresh take on how our
linguistic abilities could be domain-general: enabled by a
composite of very small and redundant cognitive subsystems, few if
any of which are likely to be specialized for language. In arguing
for this position, however, the book takes seriously various cases
suggesting that language dissociates from other cognitive
faculties. Accessibly written, The Adaptable Mind is a fascinating
account of neuroplasticity, neural reuse, the modularity of mind,
the evolution of language, and faculty psychology.
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