Journal
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 145-172Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2008.01007.x
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Language; Connectionism; Domain-specificity; Cognitive development; Innate; Learning; Symbol manipulation; Syntactic representation; Syntactic trees; Linguistics; Cognitive architecture; Cognition; Optimality; Evolutionary psychology
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- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD048733] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Cognitive scientists must understand not just what the mind does, but how it does what it does. In this paper, I consider four aspects of cognitive architecture: how the mind develops, the extent to which it is or is not modular, the extent to which it is or is not optimal, and the extent to which it should or should not be considered a symbol-manipulating device ( as opposed to, say, an eliminative connectionist network). In each case, I argue that insights from developmental and evolutionary biology can lead to substantive and important compromises in historically vexed debates.
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