{"id":8439,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/modularity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:43","slug":"modularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/modularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Modularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes imputed to cortical areas, it is a conception of the mind as&nbsp;composed of an innately-provided set of independently-operating mental computers, each tuned to accept different input and to subject it to different processing. A number module would be tuned to detect how numerous items were, and the occurrence of addition or subtraction could be observed. &nbsp;A language module would be tuned to accept speech-sounds and assign them meaning. &nbsp;No cross-talk would occur between modules. &nbsp;The same line of thinking applies to specific perceptual and cognitive abilities as being physically and computationally isolated from each other. This hypothesis really took root with Jerry Levy&#8217;s book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">The modularity of mind<\/span> (1983). &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"brain_-or_encephalon-\">Brain (or encephalon)<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebral_cortex_-functions-\">Cerebral cortex (functions)<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_development\">Cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_structures\">Cognitive structures<\/a>, <a href=\"conlern\">CONLERN<\/a>, <a href=\"cytoarchitectonic_independence\">Cytoarchitectonic independence<\/a>, <a href=\"domain_specificity\">Domain specificity<\/a>, Double association, <a href=\"equipotentiality\">Equipotentiality<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_modularity_hypothesis\">Innate modularity hypothesis<\/a>, <a href=\"interactive_specialization_approach_-or_hypothesis\">Interactive specialization approach (or hypothesis)<\/a>, Mental modules <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes imputed to cortical areas, it is a conception of the mind as&nbsp;composed of an innately-provided set of independently-operating mental computers, each tuned to accept different input and to subject it to different processing. A number module would be tuned to detect how numerous items were, and the occurrence of addition or subtraction could be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/modularity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modularity&#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-8439","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\/8439","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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}