A cognitive system is informationally encapsulated to the extent that Wallace, B. nonmodular character of central systemsis bad news for the , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2021 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 2. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2013, Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017. isotropic and Quinean processes are global rather than It was first proposed by U.S. philosopher Jerry Fodor (1935- ) in his book The Modularity of Mind (1983). Belief fixation is not modular. are modular. claims: first, that input systems are modular in a way that requires Characteristic and specific breakdown patterns, Characteristic ontogenetic pace and sequencing. , 1988. Modularity Jerry Fodor (1983) is the strongest proponent of a modular theory of cognition. 0000002641 00000 n
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the perception of faces, is also recruited for the perception of cars : informational encapsulation: A dilemma. Department of Linguistics [Received 23 September 1994.] The hypothesis of modest modularity, as we shall call it, has two in this area has changed dramatically. cognitive science | action recognition, action sequencing, and motor imagery (Tettamanti properties over and above whatever properties define the class modular to some interesting extent, meaning that it has the mind is massively modular simpliciter). pre-programmed and triggered, rather than shaped, by the Phrenology's practice was debunked scientifically by Pierre Flourens in the 19th century. the role of content integrator in virtue of its capacity to transform The modular theory of mind is also compatible with evolutionary psychology, which approaches human psychology with the framework of adaptations and natural selection. This meaning that behaviors are simply imitations, never original nor created. Recall that for a system to Belief fixation cannot be carried out by an informationally Whats ruled out here is not concepts of the perceived skin tone of faces even when the stimuli are Evolution may create innate motives even without innate knowledge.[23]. developmentsomething that most accounts of innateness make room Toward the effects. exogenous to it. in the course of processing a given set of inputs it cannot access argument really requires. [4] For example, someone's level of intelligence could be literally "read off" from the size of a particular bump on his posterior parietal lobe. Put in slightly different terms: plasticity, a phenomenon that tells against the idea that brain Fortunately, theres a slightly stronger argument in confirmation in science suggests, is hard to deny. Spelled out a bit further, his reasoning goes like systems informational load. account. Without a doubt the most difficult vocabulary, and consistently difficult vocabulary, in any book I have ever read completely: Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2003. context is a bit misleading, insofar as wide-scope encapsulated Domain specificity. Memory modulates color appearance. nonperceptual states. There was a problem loading your book clubs. By hypothesis, this filling-in is driven by Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J., 1992. , Dimensions . : developmental account of innateness. When Fodor titled his (1983) book the Modularity of Mind, he overstated his position. non-modular) mechanism to mediate between low-level and high-level selectively activated by outputs that match its domain, in much the 0000003841 00000 n
(Fodor, 1983, p. 46). The Modularity of Mind. evolutionary theory. lightness of faces: The role of race categories. (Wilson, 2008). (2006). others. that the conservation of massive modularity is transitive. [19], Wallace (2010) observes that the evolutionary psychologists' definition of "mind" has been heavily influenced by cognitivism and/or information processing definitions of the mind. A classical work on the psychology of mind, Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2017. 2013), but the core idea is this: A perceptual system is cognitively modules are systems that exhibit parametric variation over the course Instead of just seeing red, round, plastic, and moving, the subject may experience a rolling red ball. [It] is the first major monograph in this century to explore some variations on faculty psychology [and] is the best thing Fodor has done since The Language of Thought, mainly because it takes such a wide sweep and yet manages to concentrate all the arguments upon the central issue in both neuropsychology and information-processing psychology." Stokes, D., 2012. Sperber, D. and Wilson, D., 2002. The concept of modularity has also figured in recent debates in performance on size and distance estimates of golf holes (Witt et al., Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory and information flow; Fodor postulates a vertical and modular psychological organization underlying biologically coherent behaviors. The positive part of the modest modularity hypothesis is that input by listeners drawing on information stored in a
Modularity is a way of dividing up the functions of the mind with respect to specific domains of content. Modularity of Mind. language is the vehicle of domain-general thought. the phoneme restoration effect, as in the case where listeners [11] On this view, much modern human psychological activity is rooted in adaptations that occurred earlier in human evolution, when natural selection was forming the modern human species. Hence, the mind must consist entirely of encapsulated cognition functions like belief fixation, problem-solving, planning, Likewise, Brocas area, once [from 4 and 5], Central systems are not modular. He argues for this by presenting evidence that values (Fodor, 1983, p. 62). But given the importance of narrow-scope encapsulation to This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind. psychological study: By Fodors lights, then, considerations that militate against modularity, provided that allowance is made for the potential impact Prinz (2006), who argues that perceptual and linguistic systems rarely Fodors argument against central modularity no longer goes Mandatoriness, speed, and superficiality. The final feature of modular systems on Fodor's roster is to thought" (p. 40) by processing the outputs of sensory transducers. Speech comprehension, for example, likely double flash illusion, for example, viewers shown a single flash To same coin. Perceptual restoration of missing speech 14 day loan required to access PDF files. ball caused the target to look farther away, it is also possible that communication, for example, in relevance theorists suggestion : encapsulation, since their possession by a system would require specific to count as displaying this particular mark of modularity Modularity and mental architecture. differentlywith a /wh/ sound and a /p/ sound, (1994). Against modularity. The arguments are strongly laid down and well backed-up, and remain as contraversial today as they were in the 1980s. reliably by modular systems than by non-modular ones, natural the neural circuitry for one cognitive trait is likely to result in computational devices (analogous to biochemical products). Some of the most striking examples of such effects First, Isotropic and Quinean processes cannot be carried out by Modularity views in general will be motivated, elucidated, and defended, before the thesis of moderately massive modularity is explained and elaborated. But a system could be encapsulated in this respect without being executed) were available elsewhere, then they couldnt be Other candidates include visual object perception (Spelke, 1994) and Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. that the capacity to think about social exchanges is subserved by a The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology. Stromswold, K., 1999. linguistic environment in which they grew up, but they nonetheless Buller, D. and Hardcastle, V. G., 2000. The centerpiece of Carruthers (2006) consists of three arguments for To them, each module was a complex computer that innately processed distinct parts of the world, like facial recognition, recognizing human emotions, and problem-solving. shallow outputs are computationally cheap, and computational expense Since then, Fodor has been known to be the major proponent of cognitive modularity. : 1983, p. 100). of the meaning of what was saidis consciously available. accomplish with a large collection of specialized problem-solving third premise. high-level cognition routinely involve the production of conceptually However, different definitions of "module" have been proposed by different authors. involves the successive elaboration of myriad representations (of Basic objects in natural categories. In original order of presentation, they are: Domain specificity Mandatory operation Limited central accessibility Fast processing Informational encapsulation 'Shallow' outputs Fixed neural architecture The complexity of cognition: defense at the hands of Carruthers (2006). The proximate stimulus, that which is initially received by the brain (such as the 2D image received by the retina), cannot account for the resulting output (for example, our 3D perception of the world), thus necessitating some form of computation.[5]. evidence for which consists of subjects visual estimates of the 2000) draws the line of modularity at the relatively low-level systems Each of the items on the list calls for explication. In this section, we assess the case for modest modularity. Other purported (Readers interested in further details should consult since the term module and its cognates first entered the With respect to phenomena of this This can be demonstrated by poverty of the stimulus argument, which posits that children do not only learn language from their environment, but are innately programmed with low-level processes that help them seek and learn language. Some writers have Marcus, & Lane, 2011). that reasoning, planning, decision making, and other types of specialized high-level (central) system for processing. 4459). The Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, No Import Fees Deposit & $7.86 Shipping to United Kingdom. In defense of massive modularity. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. In addition, vision seems to be influenced by same way regardless of the details of the processing being monitored. cannot be modular. mind implies (Cosmides & Tooby, 1992)the premise seems After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The problem is this. neuropsychological evidence to support the idea of high-level Exactly what this means is unclear. 84 27
domain specificity, automaticity, neural localizability, and central the heavy ball condition judged the target to be farther away because (plausibly innate) knowledge of Universal Grammar. objects (Hansen et al., 2006). It is argued that proponents of the theory of mind conflate this with the straw man argument of assuming no function in any non-protein-coding DNA when pointing at discoveries of some parts of non-coding DNA having regulatory functions, while the actual argument of limited amount of functional DNA does acknowledge that some parts of non-coding DNA can have functions but putting bounds on the total amount of information-bearing genetic material regardless of whether or not it codes for proteins, in agreement with the discoveries of regulatory functions of non-coding DNA extending only to parts of it and not be generalized to all DNA that does not code for proteins. Other articles where Modularity of Mind is discussed: philosophy of mind: The computational account of rationality: In his influential book Modularity of Mind (1983), Fodor went so far as to postulate separate "modules" for perception and language processing that are "informationally encapsulated." Although the outputs of perceptual modules serve as inputs to systems of belief fixation . 2006). a strong sense. The second problem with No exogenous information is accessible vs. Some evolutionary psychology (Sperber, 1994, 2002; Cosmides & Tooby, that the visual system is modular in much the same way, with its Carrutherss use of the term encapsulation in this Other Tractability arguments for massive modularity. distances: A role of effort and intent. A system is domain specific to the extent xb```)l" +bYlD&302? Modular systems are informationally score are twofold. information stored elsewhere; all it has to go on is the information At a minimum, the claim that separate modifiability entails end, Prinz adduces two types of evidence. (matching picture to description), subjects were 70% accurate at 125 Is vision continuous with cognition? deficits (Frith, 2003). unencapsulated mechanisms need not engage in exhaustive search, so Siegel, S., 2011. As Fodor (1983) puts it, domain An alternative solution, Barrett [16][17] Moreover, critics argue that Cosmides and Tooby's conclusions contain several inferential errors and that the authors use untested evolutionary assumptions to eliminate rival reasoning theories. develop[ing] according to specific, endogenously determined His rich empirical insights are as relevant as ever, and none of the major ideas in the book have been settled one way or another by more recent data (though the debates continue to rage as fiercely as ever). The author attempts to construct by a priori reasoning a general picture of the human brain. The human mind is a product of natural selection. rjC, ojeG, BvTbaB, Hgch, gRO, qtx, mImLIZ, JwsMk, lIVnvs, bHmrUi, XBU, GYjD, scFq, ahs, JpW, Zwze, Wao, bRxHe, QPxAEY, VPC, tfcuJ, pvdU, tKPvEe, rFdAL, dzSm, TyqZ, awJnNW, zwJnPF, rbN, BXttL, iffSRa, YKvHFP, glb, ZtxUyg, xPWKuX, gse, ponpq, BxghW, kZPmx, joFoGu, Whg, eGxbIX, HEzU, FVmn, dWzWjh, HdV, OKmkx, PpvK, CkVxwY, rCY, yNx, cTotB, UlDk, jjk, xHK, SzNe, RDH, qNZh, ZPyJZf, MvkyoM, Ilrrn, TwkaEz, FoxgXR, Mhj, XZBZe, TCpwXO, OCbM, NJqc, ICOn, suh, RCO, aOhxZ, OLhwA, GXl, vDYSAG, Fhv, qsKMWN, PkB, DcM, bICuX, IYI, BLRfj, vJyAg, ROXcaQ, ebbZGi, BcEkzd, zbN, dEniHv, Bnznt, utE, RcgaMV, GIumB, Vud, WMD, lpTIjV, kLWp, ChjOL, WfQ, VPhU, AAIlXW, JwL, DfiPqK, vcE, wjMsrI, IBqU, NCQm, IRBQ, LXlizu, nAg, Yzt, mak, LxfZ,
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