A new look at domain specificity: insights from social neuroscience

作者:Spunt Robert P; Adolphs Ralph
来源:Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017, 18(9): 559-567.
DOI:10.1038/nrn.2017.76

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2017-9