Mental Computation and Language Breakdown: Clarifications, Extensions, and Responses.

This paper is a response to commentaries on my target paper for Computational Intelligence, “Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown.” In this response, I acknowledge certain errors in my initial construal of control and dismiss unwarranted criticisms. I then reexamine both control and certain language disorders in light of the explicitness of cross-domain communication and the visibility of representations to each other. In the end, I reassert the validity of the logic/control (visibility) distinction in mental computation and argue that the contrasts between Specific Language Impairment and Williams syndrome parallel this distinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]