found: Work cat.: Győri, Miklós. Autism and cognitive architecture, c2006:t.p. (domain specificity) p. 20 (conceptual framework and methodology to explain complex behavior)
found: MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) WWW site, May 3, 2008(Domain specificity: a view that cognitive abilities are acquired in important ways across distinct content areas. For example, the ways in which language is learned and represented are distinct from the ways in which other cognitive skills are learned and represented. This view of domain-specific contrasts with a long-held position that humans are endowed with a general set of reasoning abilities (e.g. memory, attention, inference) that they apply to any cognitive task, regardless of specific content. Domain-specificity is not a single, unified theory of the mind. There are at least 3 distinct approaches to cognition that assume domain-specificity. These include modules, theories, and expertise.)
found: Wikipedia, May 3, 2008(Domain-specific accounts draw support from the surprising competencies of infants, who are able to reason about things like numerosity, goal-directed behavior, and the physical properties of objects all in the first months of life. Domain-specific theorists argue that these competencies are too sophisticated to have been learned via a domain-general process like associative learning, especially over such a short time and in the face of the infant's perceptual, attentional, and motor deficits. Current proponents of domain specificity argue that evolution equipped humans (and indeed most other species) with specific adaptations designed to overcome persistent problems in the environment. For humans, popular candidates include reasoning about objects, other intentional agents, language, and number.)
