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Modularity, Domain-specificity, and the Organization of Knowledge
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- Instructors
- Prof. Elizabeth S. Spelke, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
- Term
- Fall 2001
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 9.916 Modularity, Domain-specificity, and the Organization of Knowledge, Fall 2001, Prof. Elizabeth S. Spelke, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: The Modularity Thesis and its Challengers
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Lecture 3: Innateness and Plasticity in Modular Organization: The Case of Vision
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Lecture 4: Objects
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Lecture 5: People I: Faces
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Lecture 6: People II: Bodies, Biological Motion, and Action
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Lecture 7: People III: Theory of Mind
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Lecture 8: Number I: Number Sense
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Lecture 9: Number II: Small Numbers, Large Numbers, and Verbal Counting
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Lecture 10: Places I: Path Integration and Cognitive Maps
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Lecture 11: Places II: Reorientation
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Lecture 12: Other Possible Domains I
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Lecture 13: Other Possible Domains II and Wrap-up
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Elizabeth S. Spelke, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher, 9.916 Modularity, Domain-specificity, and the Organization of Knowledge, Fall 2001.
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