Diversity and unity of modularity

Cognitive Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 347-380

  Seok, Bongrae ^a  

^a ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive system; Domain specificity; Information encapsultion; Information processing; Modularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646459181     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_52     Document Type: Article

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