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.