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Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition
From the works of Noam Chomsky to Jerry Fodor, the modularity of mind has been deeply rooted in cognitive science. From the “modular” perspective, cognition consists of functionally and anatomically isolable subsystems. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume a language module or a hardwired language...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685998/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.978196 |
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description | From the works of Noam Chomsky to Jerry Fodor, the modularity of mind has been deeply rooted in cognitive science. From the “modular” perspective, cognition consists of functionally and anatomically isolable subsystems. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume a language module or a hardwired language organ that is functionally and anatomically different from the other cognitive modules (e.g., vision, olfaction, motor). However, evidence from neuroscience casts doubt on this modular hypothesis. It has been shown that many brain regions are likely to be reused and recycled by various neural communities in order to serve various cognitive functions. If this is the case, language and other cognitive faculties should not be considered modules, since they cannot be realized in special-purpose, special-structure regions. Therefore, it is time to change our understanding of our brains. |
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spelling | pubmed-96859982022-11-25 Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition Pan, Xueyao Li, Xi Front Neurosci Neuroscience From the works of Noam Chomsky to Jerry Fodor, the modularity of mind has been deeply rooted in cognitive science. From the “modular” perspective, cognition consists of functionally and anatomically isolable subsystems. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume a language module or a hardwired language organ that is functionally and anatomically different from the other cognitive modules (e.g., vision, olfaction, motor). However, evidence from neuroscience casts doubt on this modular hypothesis. It has been shown that many brain regions are likely to be reused and recycled by various neural communities in order to serve various cognitive functions. If this is the case, language and other cognitive faculties should not be considered modules, since they cannot be realized in special-purpose, special-structure regions. Therefore, it is time to change our understanding of our brains. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9685998/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.978196 Text en Copyright © 2022 Pan and Li. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Pan, Xueyao Li, Xi Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
title | Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
title_full | Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
title_fullStr | Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
title_full_unstemmed | Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
title_short | Book review of the adaptable mind: What neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
title_sort | book review of the adaptable mind: what neuroplasticity and neural reuse tells us about language and cognition |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685998/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.978196 |
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