What does modularity mean?

ML Zelditch, A Goswami - Evolution & Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… For example, if we think that modularity ought to mean that … of modularity as a purely
hierarchical concept, meaning that … them, then does our metric capture that specific meaning? …

Modularity and cognition

M Coltheart - Trends in cognitive sciences, 1999 - cell.com
… , in the business of defining my terms… So what I propose to do instead of defining ‘modular
is to associate the notion of modularity with a pattern of answers to such questions as 1–5’. (…

An overview of modularity

C Parent, S Spaccapietra - Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and …, 2009 - Springer
… The modules may be created to share the same interpretation domain, as that may be the
case of ontologies and databases created as modular since the beginning, like Mads (see …

Modularity and relevance

D Sperber - The innate mind: Structure and contents, 2005 - books.google.com
… 1 What I want to do here is answer two questions: How can a massively modular mind be
flexible? And: How can a massively modular mind be context-sensitive? The two questions are …

Modularity

HC Barrett - Evolutionary perspectives on social psychology, 2015 - Springer
… A biological view of modularity, on the other hand, treats … biologically based view of modularity
is indispensable for thinking … of the biological modularity perspective for social psychology. …

Modularity in cognition: framing the debate.

HC Barrett, R Kurzban - Psychological review, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
… First, because the vision of modularity it laid out was so narrow and well … the modularity
concept—this work ultimately led virtually everyone, including Fodor, to believe that modularity as …

[DOC][DOC] Modularity in multiple disciplines

MA Schilling - Managing in the modular age: Architectures …, 2002 - researchgate.net
modular systems theory and its application to interfirm product modularity," I argued that since
modularity … to develop a general systems theory of modularity. Such a theory, if articulated …

Against modularity

W Marslen-Wilson, LK Tyler - 1987 - direct.mit.edu
… of modular input systems. We will argue on this basis that the modularity hypothesis gives
… This system does have fixed properties, and it does seem to be domain specific, mandatory …

[PDF][PDF] Modularity

W Callebaut, D Rasskin-Gutman - Understanding the development …, 2005 - academia.edu
does not conceptually imply modularity. Thus Simon’s (1969) original example of rooms
connected by corridors shows a modular … with different domains shows modularity, but not …

The cost of modularity

U Krohs - 2009 - direct.mit.edu
modularity is how to explain its evolution. I discuss arguments that have been put forward to
explain the evolution of modularity, and confront them with the fact that modularity is … do not …