这一课程将研究心理及大脑模块组织的程度和性质。我们将具体着眼于物体、数字、地点和人群的领域，利用来自于人类婴儿、儿童、正常成人、神经病病人和动物的行为研究的证据，以及来自于应用神经测量方法如功能性脑成像和诱发反应电位（ERPs）而进行的研究。有了这些领域作为例子，我们将提出更广泛的问题，关于成人行为中一般领域与特殊领域处理系统的作用，封闭的认知系统中先天性与可塑性的对比，这些系统依据的性质，和人类灵活地跨区域联系信息的过程。
This course will consider the degree and nature of the modular organization of the mind and brain. We will focus in detail on the domains of objects, number, places, and people, drawing on evidence from behavioral studies in human infants, children, normal adults, neurological patients, and animals, as well as from studies using neural measures such as functional brain imaging and ERPs. With these domains as examples, we will address broader questions about the role of domain-general and domain-specific processing systems in mature human performance, the innateness vs. plasticity of encapsulated cognitive systems, the nature of the evidence for such systems, and the processes by which people link information flexibly across domains.