3.6

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Section 3.6 Do networks need modularity?

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.............................. systems such as vision and hearing are probably .............................. which are:
- specialized for particular tasks
- insulated from information coming in from other parts of the mind
- fixed genetically.
Some researchers also argue for .............................. and nativism in cognition on the grounds that brain damage affects different parts of cognition according to which part of the brain is damaged. However, these arguments are weak because:
- the damage .............................. applies exactly to one supposed module and nothing else
- a cognitive .............................., without modules, has enough structure to explain the observed effects in terms of a tendency for related nodes to be stored near to one another in the brain.
A further argument against modularity and nativism is that cognitive networks have .............................. nodes which are extremely richly connected to other nodes and which would therefore have widespread effects if damaged.
.............................. linguistics , which includes Word Grammar, rejects .............................. and nativism in the study of language and tries to analyse language in terms of the same general principles that apply to the rest of ...............................