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Things and places : how the mind connects with the world / Zenon W. Pylyshyn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pylyshyn, Zenon W., 1937-2022.
- Series:
- Jean Nicod lectures.
- Jean Nicod lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual perception.
- Cognition.
- Mental representation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 - Introduction to the Problem: Connecting Perception and the World; 2 - Indexing and Tracking Individuals; 3 - Selection: The Key to Linking Representations and Things; 4 - Conscious Contents and Nonconceptual Representation; 5 - How We Represent Space: Internal versus External Constraints; Conclusions; References; Index
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-233) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09887-X
- 9786612098871
- 0-262-28200-3
- 1-4356-0315-X
- OCLC:
- 177220624
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