- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- II SPACE
- 2 The Role of Social Selection in the Evolution of Hippocampal Specialization
- 3 Spatial Cognition, Memory Capacity, and the Evolution of Mammalian Hippocampal Networks
- 4 Space for the Brain in Cognitive Science
- 5 Animals as Natural Geometers
- 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- III QUALITIES AND OBJECTS
- 7 Color Generalization by Birds
- 8 Evolutionary Biology of Limited Attention
- 9 Learning to See and Conceive
- IV NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
- 10 A Comparative Perspective on the Origin of Numerical Thinking
- 11 Numerical and Spatial Intuitions: A Role for Posterior Parietal Cortex?
- 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- 13 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economic Behavior: The Emerging Field of Neuroeconomics
- V SOCIAL ENTITIES
- 14 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
- 15 The Human Social Brain: An “Evo-Devo” Perspective
- 16 Ontogenetic Development Matters
- Contributors
- Index
Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- Chapter:
- (p.105) 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- Source:
- Cognitive Biology
- Author(s):
Nora S. Newcombe
Kristin R. Ratliff
Wendy L. Shallcross
Alexandra Twyman
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter focuses on the issue of cognitive modularity in the evolutionary account of development. First, it discusses an adaptive combination approach to the development of reorientation and the recent findings that support it. Two arguments for innate geometry are also presented: features alone cannot be used to reorient and an examination of geometric principles among the Munduruku (an Amazonian group who live in isolated villages and have limited access to schools).
Keywords: cognitive modularity, adaptive combination, reorientation, innate geometry, geometry, Munduruku
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- II SPACE
- 2 The Role of Social Selection in the Evolution of Hippocampal Specialization
- 3 Spatial Cognition, Memory Capacity, and the Evolution of Mammalian Hippocampal Networks
- 4 Space for the Brain in Cognitive Science
- 5 Animals as Natural Geometers
- 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- III QUALITIES AND OBJECTS
- 7 Color Generalization by Birds
- 8 Evolutionary Biology of Limited Attention
- 9 Learning to See and Conceive
- IV NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
- 10 A Comparative Perspective on the Origin of Numerical Thinking
- 11 Numerical and Spatial Intuitions: A Role for Posterior Parietal Cortex?
- 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- 13 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economic Behavior: The Emerging Field of Neuroeconomics
- V SOCIAL ENTITIES
- 14 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
- 15 The Human Social Brain: An “Evo-Devo” Perspective
- 16 Ontogenetic Development Matters
- Contributors
- Index
