Integrating the Mind: Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition

ISBN-13: 9780415655200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 520 str.

Maxwell J. Roberts

Opis

Taking a wide-ranging look at the evidence and arguments put forward in support of domain specific cognition, this book argues that domain general processes are important, and that domain specific processes cannot function without them.

Spis treści

Roberts, Introduction. Extreme Domain Specificity and Higher Cognition. Roberts, Contextual Facilitation Methodology as a Means of Investigating Domain Specific Cognition. Noveck, Mercier, Van der Henst, To What Extent Do Social Contracts Affect Performance on Wason’s Selection Task? O’Brien, Roazzi, Athias, Carmo Brandão, What Sorts of Reasoning Modules Have Been Provided by Evolution? Some Experiments Conducted among Tukano Speakers in Brazilian Amazônia Concerning Reasoning about Conditional Propositions and about Conditional Probabilities. Over, Content-independent Conditional Inference. Sloman, Lombrozo, Malt, Mild Ontology and Domain-specific Categorization. Newell, Shanks, Perspectives on the ‘Tools’ of Decision-making. McKinnon, Levine, Moscovitch, Domain-general Contributions to Social Reasoning: The Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience. Stenning, van Lambalgen, Explaining the Domain Generality of Human Cognition. Extreme Domain Specificity and Cognitive Development. Halford, Andrews, Domain General Processes in Higher Cognition: Analogical Reasoning, Schema Induction and Capacity Limitations. Overton, Dick, A Competence-procedural and Developmental Approach to Logical Reasoning. Happaney, Zelazo, Less Specificity in Higher Cognitive Mechanisms: Evidence from Theory of Mind. Moses, Sabbagh, Interactions between Domain-general and Domain-specific Processes in the Development of Children’s Theories of Mind. Mix, Sandhofer, Do We Need a Number Sense? Extreme Domain Specificity versus Domain General Intelligence. Roberts, Do Problem Solvers Need to be Intelligent? Simonton, Creativity: Specialised Expertise or General Cognitive Processes? Adey, The CASE for a General Factor in Intelligence. Gottfredson, Innovation, Fatal Accidents, and the Evolution of General Intelligence. Brody, Heritability and the Nomological Network of g. Chabris, Cognitive and Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Law of General Intelligence.

O autorze

Maxwell J. Roberts is a psychology lecturer at the University of Essex.