An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries of cognitive science: how we reason and learn about the continuous phenomena surrounding us. Forbus argues that qualita…
Exploring the application of Bayesian probabilistic modeling techniques to musical issues, including the perception of key and meter.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Digital media handle music as encoded physical energy, but humans consider music in terms of beliefs, intentions, interpretations, experiences, evaluations, and significations. In this book, drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology, Marc Leman proposes an embodied cognition approach to music research that will help bridge this gap. Assuming that the body p…
"A Bradford book."An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This reader collects in one volume classic texts that define and react to disjunctivism. These include an excerpt from a book by the late J.M. Hinton.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."The Body and the Self brings together recent work by philosophers and psychologists on the nature of self-consciousness, the nature of bodily awareness, and the relation between the two. The central problem addressed is How is our grasp of ourselves as one object among others underpinned by the ways in which we use and represent our bodies? The contributors take up such issues…
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"A Bradford book."Based on papers presented at the Sixteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, July 11-15, 1994.The contributions to this volume, the sixteenth in the prestigious Attention and Performance series, revisit the issue of modularity, the idea that many functions are independently realized in specialized, autonomous module…