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Author Pylyshyn, Zenon W., 1937-

Title Things and places : how the mind connects with the world / Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2007
©2007

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Description xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The Jean Nicod lectures
Jean Nicod lectures.
Contents 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
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
Analysis COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ( pages [211]-233) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Cognition.
Mental representation.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception.
Cognition.
Cognition.
Mental Processes.
Perception.
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Visual Perception.
LC no. 2006035507
ISBN 0262162458 (hbk.)
9780262162456 (hbk.)