{"id":8225,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/innate_modularity_hypothesis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:23","slug":"innate_modularity_hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/innate_modularity_hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Innate modularity hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hypothesis that the brain is organized into distinct modules or regions that are specifically devoted to particular cognitive abilities, and that this neurocognitive organization is present from birth. &nbsp;The hypothesis and modularity in particular has been subject to some trenchant <a href=\"http:\/\/sas-space.sas.ac.uk\/937\/1\/R_Samuels_Evolutionary.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/sas-space.sas.ac.uk\/937\/1\/R_Samuels_Evolutionary.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticism<\/a> in terms of their philosophical underpinnings. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"double_dissociation\">Double dissociation<\/a>, <a href=\"equipotentiality\">Equipotentiality<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"mental_modules\">Mental modules<\/a>, <a href=\"modularity\">Modularity<\/a>, Preformationism<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hypothesis that the brain is organized into distinct modules or regions that are specifically devoted to particular cognitive abilities, and that this neurocognitive organization is present from birth. &nbsp;The hypothesis and modularity in particular has been subject to some trenchant criticism in terms of their philosophical underpinnings. &nbsp;&nbsp; See Double dissociation, Equipotentiality, Innate (1), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/innate_modularity_hypothesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Innate modularity hypothesis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}