Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

One of the oldest and deepest questions across the cognitive sciences concerns the architecture of the mind (Fodor, 1983). Which cognitive capacities are supported by domain-general computations that apply to a broad set of inputs, and which are supported by domain-specific computations, that are specialized for a particular mental function? This question has motivated a broad set of research programs, ranging from the evolution and development of human knowledge (Tomasello, Melis, Tennie, Wyman, & Herrmann, 2012), to the specialization of neural functions (Kanwisher, 2010), to building machines to think and learn in the same ways that we can (Lake, Ullman, Tenenbaum, & Gershman, 2017).