Matters of Intelligence Conceptual Structures in Cognitive Neuroscie

This volume is not an attempt to give a comprehensive treatment of the many facets of intelligence. Rather, the intention is to present multiple approaches to interesting and novel ways of looking at old problems. The focus is on the visual and some of th

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SYNTHESE LIBRARY

STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA,

Florida State University, Tallahassee Editors:

University of California, Berkeley GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Pittsburgh

DONALD DAVIDSON,

VOLUME 188

MATTERS OF INTELLIGENCE Conceptual Structures in Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited by

LUCIA M. VAINA Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and Boston University

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Matters of intelligence. (Synthese library; v. 188) Includes index. 1. Intellect. 2. Cognition. 3. Visual perception. I. Vaina, Lucia, 1946153 87-4571 BF431.M392 1987 e-ISBN-I3: 978-94-009-3833-5 ISBN-I3: 978-94-010-8206-8 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-3833-5

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Table of Contents

Preface by Lucia Vaina

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Introductory Note ROMAN JAKOB SON I The Evasive Initial

3

Visual Intelligence DAVID MARR I Understanding Vision from Images to Shapes

7

JOHN H. R. MAUNSELL I Physiological Evidence for Two Visual Subsystems

59

LUCIA VAINA I Visual Texture for Recognition

89

CHRISTOF KOCH AND SHIMON ULLMAN I Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry

115

LAWRENCE M. PARSONS I Spatial Transformations Used in Imagination, Perception and Action

143

Cognitive Intelligence HORACE B. BARLOW I Intelligence, Guesswork, Language

185

JAAKKO HINTIKKA I Mental Models, Semantical Games and Varieties of Intelligence

197

SUSAN D. ROTHSTEIN I Syntactic Representation and Semantic Interpretation

217

STEVEN CUSHING I Two Explanatory Principles in Semantics

241

HAROLD GOODGLASS I Issues in Lexical Processing: Expressive and Receptive

255

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HENRI PRADE / Some Issues in Approximate and Plausible Reasoning in the Framework of a Possibility Theory-Based Approach

263

LOTFI A. ZADEH / Fuzzy Sets, Usuality and Commonsense Reasoning

289

PETER M. ANDREAE / Constraint Limited Generalization: Acquiring Procedures from Examples

311

SYLVAIN BROMBERGER / Rational Ignorance

333

Mechanisms of Intelli