APA Dictionary of Psychology
module
- n.
- in cognitive theory, a hypothetical center of information processing that is presumed to be relatively independent and highly specialized in its operations, such as a language module or face-processing module.
- in neuroscience, a unit of a region of the central nervous system. For example, regions of the neocortex in the brain are divided into cortical columns of basically similar structure. —modular adj.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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