A new look at domain specificity: insights from social neuroscience
A new look at domain specificity: insights from social neuroscience
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DOI:
10.1038/nrn.2017.76
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发表时间:
2017-07
影响因子:
34.7
通讯作者:
Robert P. Spunt;R. Adolphs
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作者:
Robert P. Spunt;R. Adolphs
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.