Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture - Couverture souple

Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.

 
9780521429931: Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521429935 ISBN 13 : 9780521429931
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general problem-solving device that approaches all questions in much the same way. Chomsky's theory of language, which revolutionised linguistics, challenged this claim, contending that children are primed to acquire some skills, like language, in a manner largely independent of their ability to solve other sorts of apparently similar mental problems. In recent years researchers in anthropology, psychology, linguistic and neuroscience have examined whether other mental skills are similarly independent. Many have concluded that much of human thought is 'domain-specific'. Thus, the mind is better viewed as a collection of cognitive abilities specialised to handle specific tasks than a general problem solver. This volume introduces a general audience to a domain-specificity perspective, by compiling a collection of essays exploring how several of these cognitive abilities are organised.

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What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general problem-solving device that approaches all questions in much the same way. Chomsky's theory of language, which revolutionised linguistics, challenged this claim, contending that children are primed to acquire some skills, like language, in a manner largely independent of their ability to solve other sorts of apparently similar mental problems. In recent years researchers in anthropology, psychology, linguistic and neuroscience have examined whether other mental skills are similarly independent. Many have concluded that much of human thought is 'domain-specific'. Thus, the mind is better viewed as a collection of cognitive abilities specialised to handle specific tasks than a general problem solver. This volume introduces a general audience to a domain-specificity perspective, by compiling a collection of essays exploring how several of these cognitive abilities are organised.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521429935
ISBN 13 
9780521429931
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
532
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9780521419666: Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture

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ISBN 10 :  0521419662 ISBN 13 :  9780521419666
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994
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