The background assumption for much animal cognition research The computational theory of mind, Is cognition a general purpose computational system? Or is cognition modular?(cognition must be thought of as a bundle of special- purpose computational modules rather than one general purpose processor)The background assumption for much animal cognition research  The computational theory of mind.  Is cognition a general purpose computational system?  Or is cognition modular? (cognition must be thought of as a bundle of special￾purpose computational modules rather than one general purpose processor)