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  1. Seeing and imagining in the cerebral hemispheres: A computational approach.Stephen M. Kosslyn - 1987 - Psychological Review 94 (2):148-175.
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  • Sex-related differences in precocious mathematical reasoning ability: Not illusory, not easily explained.Camilla Persson Benbow - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):217-232.
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  • The forgotten realm of genetic differences.Ada Zohar & Ruth Guttman - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):217-217.
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  • Cerebral organization and mathematical ability.M. P. Bryden - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):186-187.
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  • O Tempora, O Mores!H. J. Eysenck - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):189-190.
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  • Sex differences in mathematical reasoning ability in intellectually talented preadolescents: Their nature, effects, and possible causes.Camilla Persson Benbow - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):169-183.
    Several hundred thousand intellectually talented 12-to 13-year-olds have been tested nationwide over the past 16 years with the mathematics and verbal sections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Although no sex differences in verbal ability have been found, there have been consistent sex differences favoring males in mathematical reasoning ability, as measured by the mathematics section of the SAT (SAT-M). These differences are most pronounced at the highest levels of mathematical reasoning, they are stable over time, and they are observed (...)
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  • Sex differences in mathematics: Is there any news here?Lila Ghent Braine - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):185-186.
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  • The epigenesis of regional specificity.Ralph-Axel Müller - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):650-675.
    Chomskyian claims of a genetically hard-wired and cognitively autonomous “universal grammar” are being promoted by generative linguistics as facts about language to the present day. The related doctrine of an evolutionary discontinuity in language emergence, however, is based on misconceptions about the notions of homology and preadaptation. The obvious lack of equivalence between symbolic communicative capacities in existing nonhuman primates and human language does not preclude common roots. Normal and disordered language development is strongly influenced by the genome, but there (...)
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  • Is human language just another neurobiological specialization?Stephen F. Walker - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):649-650.
    One can disagree with Müller that it is neurobiologically questionable to suppose that human language is innate, specialized, and species-specific, yet agree that the precise brain mechanisms controlling language in any individual will be influenced by epigenesis and genetic variability, and that the interplay between inherited and acquired aspects of linguistic capacity deserves to be investigated.
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  • Müller's conclusions and linguistic research.Frederick J. Newmeyer - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):641-642.
    Because Müiller fails to distinguish between two senses of the term “autonomy,” there is a danger that his results will be misinterpreted by both linguists and neuroscientists. Although he may very well have been successful in refuting one sense of autonomy, he may actually have helped to provide an explanation for the correctness of autonomy in its other sense.
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  • It's a far cry from speech to language.Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola & Annette Karmiloff-Smith - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):645-646.
    We agree with Müller's epigenetic view of evolution and ontogeny and applaud his multilevel perspective. With him, we stress the importance in ontogeny of progressive specialisation rather than prewired structures. However, we argue that he slips from “speech” to “language” and that, in seeking homologies, these two levels need to be kept separate in the analysis of evolution and ontogeny.
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  • Evolutionary principles and the emergence of syntax.P. Thomas Schoenemann & William S.-Y. Wang - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):646-647.
    The belief that syntax is an innate, autonomous, species-specific module is highly questionable. Syntax demonstrates the mosaic nature of evolutionary change, in that it made use of (and led to the enhancement of) numerous preexisting neurocognitive features. It is best understood as an emergent characteristic of the explosion of semantic complexity that occurred during hominid evolution.
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  • A polyglot perspective on dissociation.Neil Smith - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):648-648.
    Evidence is presented from a polyglot savant to suggest that double dissociations between linguistic and nonverbal abilities are more important than Müller's target article implies. It is also argued that the special nature of syntax makes its assimilation to other aspects of language or to nonhuman communication systems radically implausible.
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  • Genes, specificity, and the lexical/functional distinction in language acquisition.Karin Stromswold - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):648-649.
    Contrary to Müller's claims, and in support of modular theories, genetic factors play a substantial and significant role in language. The finding that some children with specific language impairment (SLI) have nonlinguistic impairments may reflect improper diagnosis of SLI or impairments that are secondary to linguistic impairments. Thus, such findings do not argue against the modularity thesis. The lexical/functional distinction appears to be innate and specifically linguistic and could be instantiated in either symbolic or connectionist systems.
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  • Pluripotentiality, epigenesis, and language acquisition.Bob Jacobs & Lori Larsen - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):639-639.
    Müller provides a valuable synthesis of neurobiological evidence on the epigenetic development of neural structures involved in language acquisition. The pluripotentiality of developing neural tissue crucially constrains linguistic/cognitive theorizing about supposedly innate neural mechanisms and contributes significantly to our understanding of experience–dependent processes involved in language acquisition. Without this understanding, any proposed explanation of language acquisition is suspect.
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  • Neuroanatomical structures and segregated circuits.Philip Lieberman - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):641-641.
    Segregated neural circuits that effect particular domain-specific behaviors can be differentiated from neuroanatomical structures implicated in many different aspects of behavior. The basal ganglionic components of circuits regulating nonlinguistic motor behavior, speech, and syntax all function in a similar manner. Hence, it is unlikely that special properties and evolutionary mechanisms are associated with the neural bases of human language.
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  • Innateness, autonomy, universality? Neurobiological approaches to language.Ralph-Axel Müller - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):611-631.
    The concepts of the innateness, universality, species-specificity, and autonomy of the human language capacity have had an extreme impact on the psycholinguistic debate for over thirty years. These concepts are evaluated from several neurobiological perspectives, with an emphasis on the emergence of language and its decay due to brain lesion and progressive brain disease.Evidence of perceptuomotor homologies and preadaptations for human language in nonhuman primates suggests a gradual emergence of language during hominid evolution. Regarding ontogeny, the innate component of language (...)
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  • Right-hemisphere reading revisited.Max Coltheart - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (2):363-365.
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  • Reading and the right hemisphere.John L. Bradshaw - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (2):367-368.
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  • Music reading expertise modulates hemispheric lateralization in English word processing but not in Chinese character processing.Sara Tze Kwan Li & Janet Hui-wen Hsiao - 2018 - Cognition 176 (C):159-173.
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  • Functional specialization in the lower and upper visual fields in humans: Its ecological origins and neurophysiological implications.Fred H. Previc - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (3):519-542.
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  • But what about nonprimate asymmetries and nonmanual primate asymmetries?John L. Bradshaw - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):264-265.
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  • On throwing bones to environmentalists.Donald Symons - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):212-212.
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  • Sex differences in mathematical talents remain unexplained.Earl Hunt - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):196-197.
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  • To understand sex differences we must understand reasoning processes.Nancy Ewald Jackson - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):197-198.
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  • Biological influences on cognitive function.Doreen Kimura - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):200-200.
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  • The effects of selection and variability in studies of gender differences.Betsy Jane Backer & Larry V. Hedges - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):183-184.
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  • Spatial visualization and mathematical reasoning abilities.Sarah A. Burnett - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):187-188.
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  • Advances and retreats In laterality research.Eran Zaidel - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (3):523.
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  • The analytic/holistic dichotomy: An epiphenomenon.Justine Sergent - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (3):521.
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  • Neurobiology and linguistics are not yet unifiable.David Poeppel - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):642-643.
    Neurobiological models of language need a level of analysis that can account for the typical range of language phenomena. Because linguistically motivated models have been successful in explaining numerous language properties, it is premature to dismiss them as biologically irrelevant. Models attempting to unify neurobiology and linguistics need to be sensitive to both sources of evidence.
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  • Biology of language: Principle predictions and evidence.Friedemann Pulvermüller, Bettina Mohr & Hubert Preissl - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):643-645.
    Müller's target article aims to summarize approaches to the question of how language elements (phonemes, morphemes, etc.) and rules are laid down in the brain. However, it suffers from being too vague about basic assumptions and empirical predictions of neurobiological models, and the empirical evidence available to test the models is not appropriately evaluated. (1) In a neuroscientific model of language, different cortical localizations of words can only be based on biological principles. These need to be made explicit. (2) Evidence (...)
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  • Sign language and the brain: Apes, apraxia, and aphasia.David Corina - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):633-634.
    The study of signed languages has inspired scientific' speculation regarding foundations of human language. Relationships between the acquisition of sign language in apes and man are discounted on logical grounds. Evidence from the differential hreakdown of sign language and manual pantomime places limits on the degree of overlap between language and nonlanguage motor systems. Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals neural areas of convergence and divergence underlying signed and spoken languages.
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  • Autonomy of syntactic processing and the role of Broca's area.Angela D. Friederici - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):634-635.
    Both autonomy and local specificity are compatible with observed interconnectivity at the cell level when considering two different levels: cell assemblies and brain systems. Early syntactic structuring processes in particular are likely to representan autonomous module in the language/brain system.
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  • Familial language impairment: The evidence.Myrna Gopnik - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):635-636.
    Müller argues that general cognitive skills and linguistic skills are not necessarily independent. However, cross-linguistic evidence from an inherited specific language disorder affecting productive rules suggests significant degrees of modularity, innateness, and universality of language. Confident claims about the overall nature of such a complex system still await more interdisciplinary research.
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  • An innate language faculty needs neither modularity nor localization.Derek Bickerton - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):631-632.
    Müller misconstrues autonomy to mean strict locality of brain function, something quite different from the functional autonomy that linguists claim. Similarly, he misperceives the interaction of learned and innate components hypothesized in current generative models. Evidence from sign languages, Creole languages, and neurological studies of rare forms of aphasia also argues against his conclusions.
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  • Double dissociation, modularity, and distributed organization.John A. Bullinaria & Nick Chater - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):632-632.
    Müller argues that double dissociations do not imply underlying modularity of the cognitive system, citing neural networks as examples of fully distributed systems that can give rise to double dissociations. We challenge this claim, noting that suchdouble dissociations typically do not “scale-up,” and that even some singledissociations can be difficult to account for in a distributed system.
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  • The spiritual limits of neuropsychological life.John A. Teske - 1996 - Zygon 31 (2):209-234.
    How neuropsychology is necessary but insufficient for understanding spirituality is explored. Multileveled spiritual requisites are systematically examined in terms of their neuropsychological constituents and limitations. The central “problem of integrity” is articulated via the “modularity” of our neuropsychology, and evidence is presented for disunities of self and consciousness. It is argued that the integrity of self or spirit is a contingent achievement rather than a necessary given. Integrating possibilities include belief, emotion, and relationships. Understanding integrity, and the transformations of self-surrender (...)
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  • Seeking the neurobiological bases of speech perception.Joanne L. Miller & Peter W. Jusczyk - 1989 - Cognition 33 (1-2):111-137.
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  • The riddle of Carlyle: The unsolved problem of the origin of handedness.I. I. Glezer - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):273-275.
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  • Two hemispheres: One reaching hand.M. A. Goodale - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):275-276.
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  • A worthy enterprise injured by overinterpretation and misrepresentation.Marc D. Hauser & Jon Sakata - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):638-638.
    The synthetic position adopted by Müller is weakened by a large number of overinterpretations and misrepresentations, together with a caricatured view of innateness and modularity.
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  • Neurobiological approaches to language: Falsehoods and fallacies.Yosef Grodzinsky - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):637-637.
    The conclusion that language is not really innate or modular is based on several fallacies. I show that the target article confuses communicative skills with linguistic abilities, and that its discussion of brain/language relations is replete with factual errors. I also criticize its attempt to contrast biological and linguistic principles. Finally, I argue that no case is made for the “alternative” approach proposed here.
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  • The Modulation of Visual and Task Characteristics of a Writing System on Hemispheric Lateralization in Visual Word Recognition—A Computational Exploration.Janet H. Hsiao & Sze Man Lam - 2013 - Cognitive Science 37 (5):861-890.
    Through computational modeling, here we examine whether visual and task characteristics of writing systems alone can account for lateralization differences in visual word recognition between different languages without assuming influence from left hemisphere (LH) lateralized language processes. We apply a hemispheric processing model of face recognition to visual word recognition; the model implements a theory of hemispheric asymmetry in perception that posits low spatial frequency biases in the right hemisphere and high spatial frequency (HSF) biases in the LH. We show (...)
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  • From Searle’s Chinese room to the mathematics classroom: technical and cognitive mathematics.Dimitris Gavalas - 2006 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 26 (2):127-146.
    Employing Searle’s views, I begin by arguing that students of Mathematics behave similarly to machines that manage symbols using a set of rules. I then consider two types of Mathematics, which I call Cognitive Mathematics and Technical Mathematics respectively. The former type relates to concepts and meanings, logic and sense, whilst the latter relates to algorithms, heuristics, rules and application of various techniques. I claim that an upgrade in the school teaching of Cognitive Mathematics is necessary. The aim is to (...)
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  • When is the right hemisphere holistic and when is it not? The case of Chinese character recognition.Harry K. S. Chung, Jacklyn C. Y. Leung, Vienne M. Y. Wong & Janet H. Hsiao - 2018 - Cognition 178 (C):50-56.
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  • Bias and sampling error in sex difference research.Douglas Wahlsten - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):214-214.
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  • Neuroanatomical sex differences: Of no consequence for cognition?Sandra F. Witelson - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):215-217.
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  • Nature/nurture in male/female mathematical giftedness.Nora Newcombe & Mary Ann Baenninger - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):206-206.
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  • Socialization versus biology: Time to move on.Diane McGuinness - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):203-204.
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