title: On the neural implausibility of the modular mind: Evidence for distributed construction dissolves boundaries between perception, cognition, and emotion.
abstract: Firestone & Scholl (F&S) rely on three problematic assumptions about the mind (modularity, reflexiveness, and context-insensitivity) to argue cognition does not fundamentally influence perception. We highlight evidence indicating that perception, cognition, and emotion are constructed through overlapping, distributed brain networks characterized by top-down activity and context-sensitivity. This evidence undermines F&S's ability to generalize from case studies to the nature of perception.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,New York University,New York,NY 10003.leor.hackel@nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Leor M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hackel
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Northwestern University,Evanston,IL 60208.gracelarson2017@u.northwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Grace M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of California,Santa Barbara,Santa Barbara,CA 93106.bowen@psych.ucsb.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Syracuse University,Syracuse,NY 13244.gaehrlic@syr.edu.
authors.forename: Gaven A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Ehrlich
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Cornell University,Ithaca,NY 14853.tcm79@cornell.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Pennsylvania State University,University Park,PA 16801.blm266@psu.educarlosgarrido@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Brianna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Middlewood
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,The Ohio State University,Columbus,OH 43210.roberts.1134@osu.edu.
authors.forename: Ian D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,Indiana University,Bloomington,IN 47405.jeyink@indiana.edu.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eyink
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Rutgers University,Piscataway,NJ 08854.j.fetterolf@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Janell C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Fetterolf
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of California,Berkeley,Berkeley,CA 94720.fjgonzal@berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Fausto
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Pennsylvania State University,University Park,PA 16801.blm266@psu.educarlosgarrido@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Carlos O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Garrido
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Texas A&M University,College Station,TX 77840.jhkim82@tamu.edu.
authors.forename: Jinhyung
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of Massachusetts,Amherst,Amherst,MA 01003.tcobrien@psych.umass.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,State University of New York,Albany,Albany,NY 12222.ellen.e.omalley@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ellen E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: O'Malley
authors.affiliation: Center for Social and Cultural Psychology,University of Leuven,B-3000 Leuven,Belgium.mesquita@psy.kuleuven.be.
authors.forename: Batja
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mesquita
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Northeastern University,Boston,MA 02115.l.barrett@neu.edu.
authors.forename: Lisa Feldman
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Barrett
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception