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