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• Modularity of mind is the notion that a mind may, at least in part, be composed of separate innate structures which have established evolutionarily developed functional purposes. Proponents believe this view is implied by Noam Chomsky's concept of a universal, generative grammar. Such universal features of language are taken by proponents of the modularity theory to imply the existence of an underlying "language acquisition device" structure in the brain. This device is postulated to be autonomous and specialized for learning language rapidly -- a module.

Related works

• Fodor, Jerry (2000). The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology. MIT Press. ^{[^]}
• Literature/1994/Fodor ^{[^]}
• Fodor, Jerry (1983). The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology. MIT Press. ^{[^]}
• Literature/1979/Fodor ^{[^]}
• Fodor, Jerry (1975). The Language of Thought. Harvard University Press. ^{[^]}

See also

• Literature/1999/Pylyshyn ^{[^]}
• Pinker, Steven (1997). How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton. ^{[^]}
• Literature/1996/Elman ^{[^]}
• Literature/1984/Blackburn ^{[^]}
• Literature/1984/Pylyshyn ^{[^]}
• Gibson, Jame J. (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ^{[^]}
• Ogden, C. K. & I. A. Richards (1923). The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ^{[^]}

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