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A new look at domain specificity: insights from social neuroscience
Robert P Spunt1, Ralph Adolphs1
1California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, HSS 228-77, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Abstract:
The concept of domain specificity - which suggests that some aspects of neural processing are specialized for particular types of stimuli - has been invoked to explain a range of cognitive phenomena, including language, face perception and theory of mind, and has been a hallmark of theories of cognitive architecture. More recent usage of this concept draws on neuroscientific data and, in particular, on work in social neuroscience. A critical examination of the part that the concept of domain specificity has played in theories of human brain function leads us to suggest a new view according to which domain specificity pertains to centrally generated constraints on information processing that can be both dynamic and context sensitive.
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