Modularity in cognition: framing the debate.

By H. Clark Barrett, Robert Kurzban, Clark C. Barrett. Psychology Review, 2006

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Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex (2006, background): “…hypothesis of most evolutionary psychologists is tha t the mind contains many specialized adaptations akin to the different organs of the body (Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Buss, 1995; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992); each organ in the body has a specific function, and so too should the mechanisms of the…”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “In general, the modular architecture we are proposing allows for flexibility in the disgust response by virtue of the variety of inputs required to compute an expected value of contact (see Barrett and Kurzban, 2006, for a discussion on modularity).”
Intuitive and Reflective Inferences (2008, background): “At first blush, dual process theories also stand in contrast to massively modular views of human cognition (Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Carruthers, 2006; Sperber, 1994; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992).”
The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “Evolutionary psychologists hypothesize that many such evolved systems exist and that these systems respond flexibly in response to changing environmental inputs, ecologies, and internal states (e.g., Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Pinker, 2002).”
Defining features versus incidental correlates of Type 1 and Type 2 processing (2012, background): “And the claim is this: There aren’t one’’ (pp. 3–4). implicit learning; and the automatic firing of overlearned associations (see Barrett and Kurzban 2006; Carruthers 2006; Evans 2008, 2009; Samuels 2005, 2009; Shiffrin and Schneider 1977; Sperber 1994).”
Modularity of Mind (2017, background): “…system is weakly modular in the sense that it is not composed of encapsulated or domain-specific sub-systems (Carruthers 2006; Colombo 2013, 359; Robbins 2015; see also Barrett and Kurzban 2006; Carruthers 2006; Coltheart 1999; Tooby and Cosmides 1992; Pinker 2003; Sperber and Hirschfeld 2006).”
Fundamental motives: How evolutionary needs influence consumer behavior (2013, background): “Just as a Swiss Army knife has a set of different tools for solving different problems such as opening bottles or cutting rope, the mind has different psychological systems and sub-systems for solving different evolutionary challenges (see Barrett and Kurzban (2006) for a thorough discussion).”
The power of representation and interpretation: Doubling statistical reasoning performance with icons and frequentist interpretations of ambiguous numbers (2014, background): “…as informationally encapsulated and bounded to a restrictive domain of application is incorrect both at the level of the actual frequency hypothesis as it has been posed and at the level of modern evolutionary approaches in general (Barrett, 2005; Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Sperber, 1994).”
Evolution and human motivation: A fundamental motives framework (2017, background): “Integral to this evolutionary perspective on motivation is the principle of functional modularity (Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Tooby et al., 2008): Through processes of natural selection, psychologically different motivational systems evolved in response to different selection pressures associated…”
The complexity of developmental predictions from dual process models (2011, background): “…problems that have been posited by evolutionary psychologists; processes of implicit learning; and the automatic firing of overlearned associations (Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Carruthers, 2006; Coltheart, 1999; Evans, 2008, 2009; Moors & De Houwer, 2006; Samuels, 2005, 2009; Shiffrin & Schneider,…”
On the distinction between rationality and intelligence: Implications for understanding individual differences in reasoning. (2012, neutral): “…the properties of automaticity, quasi-modularity, and heuristic processing as these constructs have been variously discussed in cognitive science (Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Carruthers, 2006; Coltheart, 1999; Evans, 2008, 2009; Moors & De Houwer, 2006; Samuels, 2005, 2009; Shiff rin & Schneider,…”
Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition (2013, neutral): “…that have been posited by evolutionary psychologists; processes of implicit learning; and the automatic firing of overlearned associations (see H. C. Barrett & Kurzban, 2006; Carruthers, 2006; Evans, 2008; Kahneman & Klein, 2009; Samuels, 2005, 2009; Shiffrin & Schneider, 1977; Sperber, 1994).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, background): “Keywords: Discrete emotion; emotion experience; emotion perception; meta-analysis; neuroimaging; psychological construction”