Pinker also distinguishes language from humans' general reasoning ability, emphasizing that it is not simply a mark of advanced intelligence but rather a specialized "mental module".

They do not tend to talk about a God module per se; they usually consider belief in God a consequence of other mental modules.

A second mental module that primes us for religion is causal reasoning.

This impenetrability of the information elaborated by the mental modules limits the scope of interpretationalism.

It is this impenetrability of the information elaborated by the mental modules (informationally encapsulated) that limits the extent of interpretationalism.

Langs' research led him to posit the existence of a mental module he terms the "emotion-processing mind," a psychic function which evolved to ensure the survival of the species.

Langs sought to explain biologically why these distinct mental modules (and others) function as they do, from an evolutionary standpoint.

Thus humans have a mental module for disgust - a universal human emotion with its own facial expression.

Presumably, infants are using a different system, or mental module, from the one rats use to decide when they have reached 45 and that people use to list the cardinal numbers.

Evolutionary psychology (EP) posits that the mind is made up of a massive number of interacting emotional, motivational and cognitive adaptations or "mental modules."