Zenon Pylyshyn
Cognitive Science
Canada
1937 – 2022
102 quotes
Canadian cognitive scientist who critiqued pictorial theories of mental imagery.
Most quoted
"Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field, drawing on psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience."
— from Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science, 1984
"The problem of binding, how different features of an object are integrated, is a fundamental challenge in vision science."
— from Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think, 2003
"The explanatory power of a theory depends on its ability to account for the systematicity and productivity of cognition."
— from Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science, 1984
All quotes by Zenon Pylyshyn (102)
Observation: The future of cognition is hybrid human-AI.
Paper
2019
Wisdom: Embrace uncertainty; it's the mind's natural state.
Book
1983
Contemporaries of Zenon Pylyshyn
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Zenon Pylyshyn (1937–2022).