Vision: Object Recognition

Tarr, Michael J.

doi:10.1002/0470018860.s00631

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“…I will set these challengers aside here to focus on the properties of models that are based on the core principles of the cognitive revolution. 9 For a range of perspectives, see Biederman (1995), Tarr (2002), Tarr andBülthoff (1998), andUllman (1996). are simple three-dimensional shapes that come in a range of shapes such as blocks, cylinders, and cones, and can be scaled, rotated, conjoined, and otherwise modified to represent the large-scale structure of perceived objects (minus details like color, texture, etc.).…”

Section: The Structure Of Cognitive Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Models and mechanisms in psychological explanation

Weiskopf

2011

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Mechanistic explanation has an impressive track record of advancing our understanding of complex, hierarchically organized physical systems, particularly biological and neural systems. But not every complex system can be understood mechanistically. Psychological capacities are often understood by providing cognitive models of the systems that underlie them. I argue that these models, while superficially similar to mechanistic models, in fact have a substantially more complex relation to the real underlying system. They are typically constructed using a range of techniques for abstracting the functional properties of the system, which may not coincide with its mechanistic organization. I describe these techniques and show that despite being non-mechanistic, these cognitive models can satisfy the normative constraints on good explanations.

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Section: The Structure Of Cognitive Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%