Seeing objects : : the structure of visual representation / / Michela C. Tacca.

• VerfasserIn: Tacca, Michela C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Mentis,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (126 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

Intro -- Seeing Objects: The Structure of Visual Representation -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 THE NON-CONCEPTUAL CONTENT OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE -- 1.1 Three Senses of the Word 'Looks' -- 1.2 Why There is a Non-ConceptualContent -- 1.2.1 The state view -- 1.2.2 The content view -- 1.3 TheContent of Visual Representations -- 1.4 Vision as a Representational System -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 SYNTACTIC COMPOSITIONALITY, SYSTEMATICITY, AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 2.1 Varieties of Compositionality -- 2.1.1 The principle of compositionality of thought -- 2.1.2 Compositionality deflated -- 2.1.3 Syntactic compositionality -- 2.2 Structure of Constituents -- 2.3 Systematicity -- 2.3.1 The binding problemin artificial neural networks -- 2.4 Productivity -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 THE BINDING PROBLEM IN VISION -- 3.1 General Architecture of the Visual System -- 3.2 The Binding Problem in Vision -- 3.3 Potential Binding Mechanisms -- 3.3.1 Static binding models: the hypothesis of 'binding by convergence' -- 3.3.2 Dynamic bindingmodels -- 3.3.3 How binding by attention and binding by synchrony can be reconciled -- 3.4 Attentional Control and the Unit of Attentional Selection -- 3.5 Models of ObjectRecognition -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Systematicity of Visual Binding -- 4.1 Visual Primitive Constituents -- 4.2 WhyVision is Apparently not Systematic -- 4.3 Systematicity of Binding Operations in Vision -- 4.3.1 The alleged systematicity of structural models of object recognition -- 4.3.2 Visual feature binding (first-order binding) -- 4.3.3 The representation of extended object: Perceptual grouping -- 4.3.4 The representation of spatial relations between objects (second-order binding) -- 4.3.5 Differences between the structure of vision and the structure of cognition -- 4.4 Sense and Reference -- 4.5 Conclusion.

5 COMPOSITIONAL CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE IN VISION -- 5.1 Compositionality and Its Relation to Systematicity -- 5.2 Compositionality of Visual Representations -- 5.2.1 Compositional structure of constituents -- 5.2.2 Syntactic compositionality (I) -- 5.2.3 Syntactic compositionality (II) -- 5.3 Formal Details -- 5.4 On the Aboutness of Vision -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 THE STRUCTURE OF VISION -- 6.1 The Information-Link Between Demonstratives Thoughts and Vision -- 6.2 Reference and Visual Binding -- 6.3 Conclusion -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.