Abstract:This thesis describes an analysis of contextual coherence in the visual imagination using three disciplines: cognition, computation, and neuroscience. I examine the topic by augmenting a model of the visual imagination, SOILIE, with an improved version of their top-n model of coherence. I show that the augmented, serial local hill search model, Coherencer, is an improvement over the original model using a new, quantitative evaluation. I then demonstrate that Coherencer is better than a competitive model from t… Show more
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