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Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA.
Scientists have been dissecting the neural architecture of the human mind for several centuries. Dissecting its computational architecture has proven more difficult, however. Within the cognitive sciences, for example, there is a debate about the extent to which human reasoning is generated by computational machinery that is domain specific and functionally specialized.
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