Sentence examples for mental modules from inspiring English sources

These core mental modules — object representation, approximate number sense and geometric navigation — are all ancient systems shared at least in part with other animals; for example, rats also navigate through a maze by way of shape but not color.

In these terms, the language organ is just one of a set of freestanding mental modules.

Whether emotions function as "mental modules", however, remains a topic of debate (Faucher and Tappolet 2006).

The idea of modular organization raises the empirical question of what mental modules there are and how they are linked to each other.

Nonconscious information is more likely to be encapsulated within particular mental modules and available for use only with respect to the applications directly connected to that subsystem's operation (Fodor 1983).

In further discussion, Bub [1994] showed that if we grant certain restrictive assumptions about how mental modules are connected, then a complete set of behavioural observations would allow a neuropsychologist to ascertain the module structure of a (normal) mind.

"There is a flagrant double standard that's applied to the evidence," said Dr. Buss, whose latest book, "The Dangerous Passion" (Free Press, 2000) deals with jealousy, and who has recently proposed that human beings may have a specialized mental module for murder.

A careful look at the representations needed a careful look that each mental module has a separate form of representation.

It is the "mental module" in which members of a speech community store the kind terms prerequisite to generalization and description (2000 [192 97 92297; 2330 [1993], 238 2393, 242–244, 244, 244).

Broad, cross-cultural similarities in folktaxonomy and between folktaxonomy and scientific systematics—are for Atran and Medin once again evidence of the existence of a mental module that, suitably stimulated, organizes the biological domain.

The initial processing of metaphors appears to be done by a mental module of the kind described by Fodor (1983): an obligatory, rapid, domain-specific (language) set of fixed neural architecture.