Matters of intelligence conceptual structures in cognitive neuroscience / edited by Lucia M. Vaina.

Other author Vaina, Lucia, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoDordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Norwell, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1987.
Descriptionxi, 495 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Intellect.
Cognition.
Visual perception.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Conceptual structures (Information theory)

SeriesSynthese library ; v. 188
Synthese library ; v. 188. ^A4759
Contents Introductory note. The evasive initial / Roman Jakobson.
Contents Visual intelligence. Understanding vision from images to shapes / David Marr -- Physiological evidence for two visual subsystems / John H.R. Maunsell -- Visual texture for recognition / Lucia Vaina -- Shifts in selective attention : towards the underlying neural circuitry / Christof Koch and Shimon Ullman -- Spatial transformations used in imagination, perception, and action / Lawrence M. Parsons.
Contents Cognitive intelligence. Intelligence, guesswork, language / Horace B. Barlow -- Mental models, semantical games, and varieties of intelligence / Jaakko Hintikka -- Syntactic representation and semantic interpretation / Susan D. Rothstein -- Two explanatory principles in semantics / Steven Cushing -- Issues in lexical processing : expressive and receptive / Harold Goodglass -- Some issues in approximate and plausible reasoning in the framework of a possibility theory-based approach / Henri Prade -- Fuzzy sets, usuality, and commonsense reasoning / Lotfi A. Zadeh -- Constraint limited generalization : acquiring procedures from examples / Peter M. Andreae -- Rational ignorance / Sylvain Bromberger.
Contents Mechanisms of intelligence. From intelligence to the microchemistry of the human cerebral cortex / Alfred Pope -- Maps in context : some analogies between visual cortex and genetic maps / John Allman -- Cerebral cortex as model builder / Horace B. Barlow -- The material basis of mind / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Intelligence : why it matters : biological significance of emotional intelligence and its relation to hemispheric specialization in man / David M. Bear -- Distributed computation using algebraic elements / Steven Matthysse -- Expecting the unpredictable : when computers can think in parallel / Henry Lieberman.
Contents Concluding note. This strange intelligence / Richard Gregory.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 87004571
ISBN9027724601
ISBN9789027724601