Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition - The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 25 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series
Release date:	September 1992
First published:	1992
Editors:	Megan R. Gunnar • Michael Maratsos
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-1175-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography
LSN:	0-8058-1175-3
Barcode:	9780805811759

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