Language and the Brain
Subtitle: Representation and Processing (Foundations of Neuropsychology)
Contributors: Yosef Grodzinsky (Editor); Lewis P. Shapiro (Editor); David Swinney (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780123042606
First sentence: Jerry Fodor's overall agenda in The Modularity of Mind (1983) is that we should not conceive of the mind as a giant maximally interconnected net, such that, for instance, your language processing can potentially be affected by what you ate for breakfast or the color of the speaker's hair or millions of other ridiculous things.