Matters of Intelligence: Conceptual Structures in Cognitive Neuroscience

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Evasive Initial....Pages 3-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Understanding vision from images to shapes....Pages 7-58
Physiological Evidence for Two Visual Subsystems....Pages 59-87
Visual Texture for Recognition....Pages 89-114
Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry....Pages 115-141
Spatial Transformations used in Imagination, Perception and Action....Pages 143-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Intelligence, guesswork, language....Pages 185-195
Mental Models, Semantical Games and Varieties of Intelligence....Pages 197-215
Syntactic Representation and Semantic Interpretation....Pages 217-239
Two Explanatory Principles in Semantics....Pages 241-253
Issues in Lexical Processing: Expressive and Receptive....Pages 255-261
Some Issues in Approximate and Plausible Reasoning in the Framework of a Possibility Theory-Based Approach....Pages 263-287
Fuzzy Sets, Usuality and Commonsense Reasoning....Pages 289-309
Constraint Limited Generalization: Acquiring Procedures from Examples....Pages 311-331
Rational Ignorance....Pages 333-352
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
From Intelligence to the Microchemistry of the Human Cerebral Cortex....Pages 355-367
Maps in Context: Some Analogies Between Visual Cortical and Genetic Maps....Pages 369-393
Cerebral Cortex as Model Builder....Pages 395-406
The Material Basis of Mind....Pages 407-427
Intelligence: Why it Matters. Biological Significance of Emotional Intelligence and Its Relation to Hemispheric Specialization in Man....Pages 429-452
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
Distributed Computation Using Algebraic Elements....Pages 453-460
Expecting the Unpredictable: When Computers Can Think in Parallel....Pages 461-478
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
This Strange Intelligence....Pages 481-491
Back Matter....Pages 493-495