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  • Jerry Fodor's 1983 monograph "Modularity of Mind" proposed that mental architecture comprises modules with specific features.
  • Debates on mental modularity often lack detailed case studies, despite implications for cognitive science.
  • Understanding mental structure and function may benefit from a modular framework.

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  • To investigate the modularity of contour interpolation, a perceptual process.
  • To provide a detailed case study supporting or refuting mental modularity.
  • To explore the relationship between initiating conditions and modularity features.

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  • Differentiating contour interpolation from contour abstraction.
  • Analyzing empirical data on contour interpolation's characteristics.
  • Assessing evidence for domain specificity, automaticity, encapsulation, and other modularity features.

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  • Contour interpolation exhibits domain specificity, automaticity, speed, and developmental sequencing.
  • This process yields representationally impoverished outputs and relies on a fixed neural architecture.
  • It is encapsulated from belief and expectation, with inner workings inaccessible to introspection.

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  • Contour interpolation demonstrates modularity, particularly when initiating conditions are strong.
  • The emergence of modularity features correlates with the salience of interpolated contours.
  • Empirical evidence suggests that at least some mental processes are modularly organized.