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33The Robot's Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence (edited book)Ablex. 1994.The chapters in this book have evolved from talks originally presented at The First International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition.
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116What is Cognitive Science (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1999.Written by an assembly of leading researchers in the field, this volume provides an innovative and non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field.
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Cognitive science and Fodorian exceptionalismIn Roberto G. De Almeida & Lila R. Gleitman (eds.), On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at its Core, Oup Usa. 2017.
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16On computation and cognition: Toward a foundation of cognitive scienceArtificial Intelligence 38 (2): 248-251. 1989.
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Comment: "Truth Conditions and Procedural Semantics"In Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition, University of British Columbia Press. pp. 101-111. 1990.
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1Complexity and the study of human and machine intelligenceIn J. Haugel (ed.), Mind Design, Mit Press. 1981.
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17Absolute judgment of distance as a function of induced muscle tension, exposure time, and feedbackJournal of Experimental Psychology 71 (5): 649. 1966.
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95��In four experiments we address the question whether several visual objects can be selected voluntarily (exogenously) and then tracked in a Multiple Object Tracking paradigm and, if so, whether the selection involves a different process. Experiment 1 showed that items can indeed be selected based on their labels. Experiment 2 showed that to select the complement set to a set that is automatically (exogenously) selected — e.g. to select all objects not flashed — observers require additional time …Read more
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81The Robot's Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence (edited book)Ablex. 1996.The chapters in this book have evolved from talks originally presented at The First International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition.
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114How direct is visual perception?: Some reflections on Gibson's “ecological approach”Cognition 9 (2): 139-196. 1981.Establishment holds that thc psychological mechanism of inference is the ment psychological thcorizing. Moreover, given this conciliatory reading, transformation of mental representations, it follows that perception is in.
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396. Seeing With the Mind’s Eye 1: The Puzzle of Mental Imagery .................................................6-1 6.1 What is the puzzle about mental imagery?..............................................................................6-1 6.2 Content, form and substance of representations ......................................................................6-6 6.3 What is responsible for the pattern of results obtained in imagery studies?.................................6-8..
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209Computation and cognition: Issues in the foundation of cognitive scienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1): 111-32. 1980.The computational view of mind rests on certain intuitions regarding the fundamental similarity between computation and cognition. We examine some of these intuitions and suggest that they derive from the fact that computers and human organisms are both physical systems whose behavior is correctly described as being governed by rules acting on symbolic representations. Some of the implications of this view are discussed. It is suggested that a fundamental hypothesis of this approach is that ther…Read more
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53I recently discovered that work I was doing in the laboratory and in theoretical writings was implicitly taking a position on a set of questions that philosophers had been worrying about for much of the past 30 or more years. My clandestine involvement in philosophical issues began when a computer science colleague and I were trying to build a model of geometrical reasoning that would draw a diagram and notice things in the diagram as it drew it (Pylyshyn, Elcock, Marmor, & Sander, 1978). One pr…Read more
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118When is attribution of beliefs justified? [P&W]Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (4): 592-593. 1978.
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379The Robot's Dilemma: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence (edited book)Ablex. 1987.Each of the chapters in this volume devotes considerable attention to defining and elaborating the notion of the frame problem-one of the hard problems of artificial intelligence. Not only do the chapters clarify the problems at hand, they shed light on the different approaches taken by those in artificial intelligence and by certain philosophers who have been concerned with related problems in their field. The book should therefore not be read merely as a discussion of the frame problem narrowl…Read more
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171. Background: Representation in language and vision ................................................ 1 2. Some parallels between the study of vision and language......................................... 3..
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57in press, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
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47We present three studies examining whether multiple-object tracking (MOT) benefits from the active inhibition of nontargets, as proposed in (Pylyshyn, 2004). Using a probedot technique, the first study showed poorer probe detection on nontargets than on either the targets being tracked or in the empty space between objects. The second study used a matching nontracking task to control for possible masking of probes, independent of target tracking. The third study examined how localized the inhibi…Read more
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15I’m one of those who is awed and impressed by the potential of this field and have devoted some part of my energy to persuading people that it is a positive force. I have done so largely on the grounds of its economic benefits and it potential for making the fruits of computer technology more generally available to the public — for example, to help the overworked physician; to search for oil and minerals and help manage our valuable resources; to explore, mine, and experimentindangerousenvironment…Read more
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14This is indeed an auspicious time for Cognitive Science. I stand here before you this evening as the first Chair to give a presidential address to this austere body, to place on record before you what you are to accept as the Society's official view on the new science of the mind.
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1336Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysisCognition 28 (1-2): 3-71. 1988.This paper explores the difference between Connectionist proposals for cognitive a r c h i t e c t u r e a n d t h e s o r t s o f m o d e l s t hat have traditionally been assum e d i n c o g n i t i v e s c i e n c e . W e c l a i m t h a t t h e m a j o r d i s t i n c t i o n i s t h a t , w h i l e b o t h Connectionist and Classical architectures postulate representational mental states, the latter but not the former are committed to a symbol-level of representation, or to a ‘language of t…Read more
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443Mental imagery: In search of a theoryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (2): 157-182. 2002.It is generally accepted that there is something special about reasoning by using mental images. The question of how it is special, however, has never been satisfactorily spelled out, despite more than thirty years of research in the post-behaviorist tradition. This article considers some of the general motivation for the assumption that entertaining mental images involves inspecting a picture-like object. It sets out a distinction between phenomena attributable to the nature of mind to what is …Read more
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20Validating computational models: A critique of Anderson's indeterminacy of representation claimPsychological Review 86 (4): 383-394. 1979.
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83Spatial Vision, 1988, 3(3), 1-19
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70ImageryIn Richard Langton Gregory (ed.), The Oxford companion to the mind, Oxford University Press. 1987.In Gregory, Richard. Oxford Companion to the Mind (Second Edition, 2006) Oxford University Press
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38Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the WorldMIT Press. 2007.In "Things and Places," Zenon Pylyshyn argues that the process of incrementally constructing perceptual representations, solving the binding problem (determining which properties go together), and, more generally, grounding perceptual ...
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