Cognitive Science articles from January 1999

Cognitive Science archives from January 1999

From Pixels to People: A Model of Familiar Face Recognition.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Face recognition attracts interest from a very broad range of scientists. The issues surrounding this ability have been studied by neurophysiologists (Perrett, Hietanen, Oram, & Benson, 1992; Gross, 1992; Sergent, Ohta,...

Encoding Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Relations Without Input-Output Correlations: New Simulation Models.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION What computational principles underlie the spatial processing the brain uses to perform visual cognitive tasks? We and others have begun to answer this fundamental question in the past several years through a convergent...

Mapping across Domains Without Feedback: A Neural Network Model of Transfer of Implicit Knowledge.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION This paper is concerned with the problem of how a neural network could model the way people can acquire knowledge in one perceptual domain and apply it to a quite different one. The process of forming a mapping between...

Attention Metaphors: How Metaphors Guide the Cognitive Psychology of Attention.
January 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The ways we identity, define, and study the phenomena of attention depend largely upon metaphor. Our thesis is that the impressive body of empirical theorizing and research that has been done on attention over the past...