Author: Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: mind, modularity
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1983-04-06
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0262560259
ISBN-13: 9780262560252

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind. Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory and information flow; Fodor postulates a vertical and modular psychological organization underlying biologically coherent behaviors. This view of mental architecture is consistent with the historical tradition of faculty psychology while integrating a computational approach to mental processes. One of the most notable aspects of Fodor’s work is that it articulates features not only of speculative

Author: Martin Everaert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: modularity, morphology
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1988-12
List price: $107.70
ISBN-10: 9067653950
ISBN-13: 9789067653954

Authors:Gerhard Schlosser, Gunter P. Wagner,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: evolution, development, modularity
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0226738558
ISBN-13: 9780226738550

Modularity in Development and Evolution offers the first sustained exploration of modules from developmental and evolutionary perspectives. Contributors discuss what modularity is, how it can be identified and modeled, how it originated and evolved, and its biological significance. Covering modules at levels ranging from genes to colonies, the book focuses on their roles not just in structures but also in processes such as gene regulation. Among many exciting findings, the contributors demonstrate how modules can highlight key constraints on evolutionary processes. A timely synthesis of a cruc

Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: modularity, power, vol, rules, design
Number of Pages: 483
Published: 2000-03-15
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0262024667
ISBN-13: 9780262024662

We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving economy often seems to be outside of our influence or control, human beings create the things that create the market forces. Devices, software programs, production processes, contracts, firms, and marke

Author: Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: science, cognitive, perspective, developmental, modularity
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-09-25
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0262611147
ISBN-13: 9780262611145

". . . deserves wide readership by both developmentalists and nondevelopmentalists who need an overview of the state of the art. Clearly and comprehensively, Karmiloff-Smith shows the highly structured ways in which different representational processes emerge from infancy onwards." -- Andrew Whiten, Nature Taking a stand midway between Piaget’s constructivism and Fodor’s nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches, showing how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-

Author: Ann K. Farmer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: current, studies, linguistics, english, japanese, syntax, study, modularity
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1984-03-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262561727
ISBN-13: 9780262561723

This book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the way to solving several long-standing problems.

Authors:Peter Carruthers, Andrew Chamberlain,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: meta, cognition, language, modularity, human, mind, evolution
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2000-11-13
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521783313
ISBN-13: 9780521783316

How did our minds evolve? Can evolutionary considerations illuminate the question of the basic architecture of the human mind? These are two of the main questions addressed in Evolution and the Human Mind by a distinguished interdisciplinary team of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists and archaeologists. The volume will be of great interest to all researchers and students interested in the evolution and nature of the mind.