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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778111603321

Autore

Pylyshyn Zenon W. <1937->

Titolo

Things and places : how the mind connects with the world / / Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007

©2007

ISBN

1-282-09887-X

9786612098871

0-262-28200-3

1-4356-0315-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

The Jean Nicod lectures

Disciplina

152.14

Soggetti

Visual perception

Cognition

Mental representation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-233) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.