Seeing, Thinking and Knowing Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual
According to Putnam to talk of “facts” without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; “object” itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words “we find that we can speak of ‘objects’that were not ‘values of any variab
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THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY General Editors: W. Leinfellner (Vienna) and G. Eberlein (Munich) Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences Series B: Mathematical and Statistical Methods Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research
SERIES A: PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME 38
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SEEING, THINKING AND KNOWING Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought Edited by
Arturo Carsetti University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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INTRODUCTION A. Carsetti
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PART I SEEING AND THINKING: A NEW APPROACH NEURAL MODELS OF SEEING AND THINKING S. Grossberg
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FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE VISUAL CORTEX AND VARIATIONAL MODELS FOR KANIZSA’S MODAL SUBJECTIVE CONTOURS J. Petitot
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GESTALT THEORY AND COMPUTER VISION A. Desolneux, L. Moisan & J.M. Morel
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TOWARDS AN ANALYTIC PHENOMENOLOGY: THE CONCEPTS OF “BODILINESS” AND “GRABBINESS” J. K. O’Regan, E. Myin & A. Noë
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INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SENSORY INPUT REFLECT THE MOTOR OUTPUT WITH WHICH ORGANISMS RESPOND TO THE INPUT A. Di Ferdinando & D. Parisi
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MOVEMES FOR MODELING BIOLOGICAL MOTION PERCEPTION L. Goncalves, E. Di Bernardo & P. Perona
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FORM CONSTRAINTS IN MOTION INTEGRATION, SEGMENTATION AND SELECTION J. Lorenceau
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4 SCINTILLATIONS, EXTINCTIONS AND OTHER NEW VISUAL EFFECTS J. Ninio
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COMMONALITIES BETWEEN VISUAL IMAGERY AND IM
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