Massive redeployment, exaptation, and the functional integration of cognitive operations

Synthese

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-345

  Anderson, Michael L ^a,b  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cognition; Computation; Cortex; Evolution; Function

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148977176     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9233-2     Document Type: Article

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