Human visual perception carves a scene at its physical joints, decomposing the world into
objects, which are selectively attended, tracked and predicted as we engage our …

Attention allows us to monitor objects or regions of visual space and select information from
them for report or storage. Classical theories of attention assumed a single focus of selection …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

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 …

Perceptual representations pick out individuals and attribute properties to them. This paper
considers the role of perceptual attribution in determining or guiding perceptual reference to …

Perceptual systems respond to proximal stimuli by forming mental representations of distal
stimuli. A central goal for the philosophy of perception is to characterize the representations …

To explain how multiple visual objects are attended and perceived, we propose that our
visual system first selects a fixed number of about four objects from a crowded scene based …

Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the
processes that constitute them. Others cannot be explained in that way. In Attention is …

Visual cognition, high-level vision, mid-level vision and top-down processing all refer to
decision-based scene analyses that combine prior knowledge with retinal input to generate …