Paul Linton (Centre for Applied Vision Research, City, University of London): Publications

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Deep neural networks are not a single hypothesis but a language for expressing computational hypotheses
with Tal Golan, JohnMark Taylor, Heiko Schütt, Benjamin Peters, Rowan P. Sommers, Katja Seeliger, Adrien Doerig, Talia Konkle, Marcel van Gerven, Konrad Kording, Blake Richards, Tim C. Kietzmann, Grace W. Lindsay, and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46. 2023.

An ideal vision model accounts for behavior and neurophysiology in both naturalistic conditions and designed lab experiments. Unlike psychological theories, artificial neural networks (ANNs) actually perform visual tasks and generate testable predictions for arbitrary inputs. These advantages enable ANNs to engage the entire spectrum of the evidence. Failures of particular models drive progress in a vibrant ANN research program of human vision.

Philosophy of Cognitive Science
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The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space
Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.

I use the distinction between perception and cognition to advance a novel account of visual shape and visual scale. 1. INTRODUCTION (Preface & Chapter 1) - I outline the distinction between perception and cognition, and give an overview of how cognitive influences were rejected, and later reincorporated back into, 3D vision. 2. VISUAL SHAPE (Chapter 2 & Chapter 3) - Traditional theories argue that 3D vision integrates binocular disparity, perspective, and shading into a single coherent percept. …Read more
I use the distinction between perception and cognition to advance a novel account of visual shape and visual scale. 1. INTRODUCTION (Preface & Chapter 1) - I outline the distinction between perception and cognition, and give an overview of how cognitive influences were rejected, and later reincorporated back into, 3D vision. 2. VISUAL SHAPE (Chapter 2 & Chapter 3) - Traditional theories argue that 3D vision integrates binocular disparity, perspective, and shading into a single coherent percept. I argue instead that visual shape is a two stage process, with perspective and shading only introduced at the level of cognition. 3. VISUAL SCALE (Chapter 4) - I argue that visual cues to scale are ineffective (vergence, accommodation, motion parallax, vertical disparities), limited in application (ground plane), or merely cognitive (familiar size), leading me to suggest that visual scale is purely cognitive. NOTE: The Preface, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2, are available on my website. Please email me for Chapters 3 and 4. The book is available on b-ok, but I take no responsibility for this site.

Perception and Neuroscience Psychophysics The Objects of Perception Ecological Approaches to Perception Read more
Perception and Neuroscience Psychophysics The Objects of Perception Ecological Approaches to Perception Spatial Experience Modularity and Cognitive Penetrability Construction and Inference in Perception

Paul Linton

The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.

The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space
Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.