Matters of intelligence : conceptual structures in cognitive neuroscience
Lucia Maria Vaina · D. Reidel Pub. Co. eBooks · 1987
Introductory Note.- The Evasive Initial.- Visual Intelligence.- Understanding Vision from Images to Shapes.- Physiological Evidence for Two Visual Subsystems.- Visual Texture for Recognition.- Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry.- Spatial Transformations Used in Imagination, Perception and Action.- Cognitive Intelligence.- Intelligence, Guesswork, Language.- Mental Models, Semantical Games and Varieties of Intelligence.- Syntactic Representation and Semantic Interpretation.- Two Explanatory Principles in Semantics.- Issues in Lexical Processing: Expressive and Receptive.- Some Issues in Approximate and Plausible Reasoning in the Framework of a Possibility Theory-Based Approach.- Fuzzy Sets, Usuality and Commonsense Reasoning.- Constraint Limited Generalization: Acquiring Procedures from Examples.- Rational Ignorance.- Mechanisms of Intelligence.- From Intelligence to the Microchemistry of the Human Cerebral Cortex.- Maps in Context: Some Analogies Between Visual Cortical and Genetic Maps.- Cerebral Cortex as Model Builder.- The Material Basis of Mind.- Intelligence: Why It Matters. Biological Significance of Emotional Intelligence and Its Relation to Hemispheric Specialization in Man.- Distributed Computation Using Algebraic Elements.- Expecting the Unpredictable: When Computers Can Think in Parallel.- Concluding Note.- This Strange Intelligence.- Name Index.