Counterfactuals are thoughts about alternatives to past events, that is, thoughts of what
might have been. This article provides an updated account of the functional theory of …

Abstract Ideas about how the brain organizes learning and memory have been evolving in
recent years, with potentially important ramifications. We review traditional thinking about …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

This paper presents a novel method for detecting and localizing objects of a visual category
in cluttered real-world scenes. Our approach considers object categorization and figure …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

This review describes and motivates six principles for computational cognitive neuroscience
models: biological realism, distributed representations, inhibitory competition, bidirectional …

In this paper we present a novel class-based segmentation method, which is guided by a
stored representation of the shape of objects within a general class (such as horse images) …

Two independent research communities have produced large bodies of data concerning
object representations: the community concerned with the infant's object concept and the …

Although lightness perception is clearly influenced by contextual factors, it is not known
whether knowledge about the reflectance of specific objects also affects their lightness …

Issues concerning selective attention provoke new questions about visual segmentation,
and vice-versa. We illustrate this by describing our recent work on grouping under …