Modularity Flashcards
Fodorian Modularity
Fodor 1983
Core knowledge
Spelke & Kinzler 2007
Apply modularity to everything
Massive Modularity
11 colour terms across 98 languages
Berlin & Kay 1969
Specific functions in specific brain regions
Kanwisher 2010
Cortical regions mature at different times
Maturational Approach
Constructivism: assimilation, accomodation
Piaget
Interactive Specialisation
Johnson 2005; 2011
Perceptual discrimination once broadly tuned, becomes specific
Scott et al. 2007
PET: Vision and audition once linkes
Tzourio-Mayozer et al. 2002
Synaesthesia in babies
Wagner & Dobkins 2011
Children don’t show inversion effect
Carey & Diamond 1994
6 and 9 month old preference for monkey face
Pascalis 2002; 2005
Expertise, not innate
Gauthier et al. 1999