TY - BOOK ID - 28505697 TI - Mapping the mind: domain specificity in cognition and culture AU - Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. AU - Gelman, Susan A. PY - 1994 SN - 0521429935 0521419662 0511752903 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - psychologie KW - cognitieve psychologie KW - domeinspecificiteit KW - 159.9 KW - 303 KW - 303 Methoden bij sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek KW - Methoden bij sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology KW - Cognition and culture KW - Human information processing KW - Schemas (Psychology) KW - Psychological schemas KW - Schemata (Cognition) KW - Schemata (Psychology) KW - Scripts (Psychology) KW - Cognition KW - Information processing, Human KW - Bionics KW - Information theory in psychology KW - Perception KW - Culture and cognition KW - Culture KW - Ethnophilosophy KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Socialization KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Human information processing. KW - Cognition and culture. KW - Mental models KW - Models, Mental UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:28505697 AB - What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general problem-solving device that approaches all questions in much the same way. Chomsky's theory of language, which revolutionised linguistics, challenged this claim, contending that children are primed to acquire some skills, like language, in a manner largely independent of their ability to solve other sorts of apparently similar mental problems. In recent years researchers in anthropology, psychology, linguistic and neuroscience have examined whether other mental skills are similarly independent. Many have concluded that much of human thought is 'domain-specific'. Thus, the mind is better viewed as a collection of cognitive abilities specialised to handle specific tasks than a general problem solver. This volume introduces a general audience to a domain-specificity perspective, by compiling a collection of essays exploring how several of these cognitive abilities are organised. ER -