Modularity in Knowledge Representation and

The notion of modularity, introduced by Noam Chomsky and developed with special emphasis on perceptual and linguistic processes by Jerry Fodor in his important book The Modularity of Mind, has provided a significant stimulus to research in cognitive science. This book presents essays in which a diverse group of philosophers, linguists, psycholinguists, and neuroscientists - including both proponents and critics of the modularity hypothesis - address general questions and specific problems related to modularity. Jay L. Garfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.

Preface
Introduction
Modularity and Psychological Method
Introduction
Modules, Frames, Fridgeons, Sleeping Dogs, and the Music of the Spheres
Against Modularity
Binding, Plausibility, and Modularity
Context Effects and Lexical Processing: A Connectionist Approach to Modularity
Semantics, Syntax, and Learnability
Introduction
The Autonomy of Syntax and Semantics
Levels of Meaning
Quantification, Ellipsis, and Logical Form
Categorial Grammar and Domain Specificity of Universal Grammar
Combinatory Grammars and Human Sentence Processing
The Components of Learnability Theory
On-Line Processing
Introduction
Modes and Modules: Multiple Paths to the Language Processor
Modularity and Interaction in Sentence Processing
Modularity in the Syntactic Parser
Modularity in Sentence Comprehension
Theories of Sentence Processing
Mandatory Processing in Speech Perception: A Case Study
The Visual Module
Introduction
Modularity and Interaction of Brain Regions underlying Visuomotor Coordination
Marr's Theory of Vision
Modularity and Naturalism in Theories of Vision
Bibliography
List of Authors
Index
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Modularity in Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Understanding

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