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Double dissociation, modularity, and distributed organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

John A. Bullinaria
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
Nick Chater
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom, nlck@psy.ox.ed.uk

Abstract

Müller argues that double dissociations do not imply underlying modularity of the cognitive system, citing neural networks as examples of fully distributed systems that can give rise to double dissociations. We challenge this claim, noting that suchdouble dissociations typically do not “scale-up,” and that even some singledissociations can be difficult to account for in a distributed system.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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