Matters of Intelligence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introductory Note

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Evasive Initial

      • Roman Jakobson

      Pages 3-4

3. Visual Intelligence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Understanding vision from images to shapes

      • David Marr

      Pages 7-58

   3. Physiological Evidence for Two Visual Subsystems

      • John H. R. Maunsell

      Pages 59-87

   4. Visual Texture for Recognition

      • Lucia Vaina

      Pages 89-114

   5. Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry

      • Christof Koch, Shimon Ullman

      Pages 115-141

   6. Spatial Transformations used in Imagination, Perception and Action

      • Lawrence M. Parsons

      Pages 143-181

4. Cognitive Intelligence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Intelligence, guesswork, language

      • Horace B. Barlow

      Pages 185-195

   3. Mental Models, Semantical Games and Varieties of Intelligence

      • Jaakko Hintikka

      Pages 197-215

   4. Syntactic Representation and Semantic Interpretation

      • Susan D. Rothstein

      Pages 217-239

   5. Two Explanatory Principles in Semantics

      • Steven Cushing

      Pages 241-253

   6. Issues in Lexical Processing: Expressive and Receptive

      • Harold Goodglass

      Pages 255-261

   7. Some Issues in Approximate and Plausible Reasoning in the Framework of a Possibility Theory-Based Approach

      • Henri Prade

      Pages 263-287

   8. Fuzzy Sets, Usuality and Commonsense Reasoning

      • Lotfi A. Zadeh

      Pages 289-309

   9. Constraint Limited Generalization: Acquiring Procedures from Examples

      • Peter Andreae

      Pages 311-331

   10. Rational Ignorance

       • Sylvain Bromberger

       Pages 333-352

5. Mechanisms of Intelligence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353

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This volume is not an attempt to give a comprehensive treatment of the many facets of intelligence. Rather, the intention is to present multiple approaches to interesting and novel ways of looking at old problems. The focus is on the visual and some of the conceptual intelligences. Vision is man's primary cognitive contact with the world around him, and we are vividly reminded of this by Roman Jakobson's autobiographical note, "The Evasive Initial" with which this volume begins. That we see the world as well as we do is something of a miracle. Looking out through our eyes, our brains give us reliable knowledge about the world around us in all it beauty of form, color and movement. The chapters in the first section look at how this may come about from various perspectives. How from the intensity array which the world casts on the eye's retina does the brain achieve recognition? What may be some of the processes involved in seeing? We see shapes, textures and colors, and subsequently, at the more cognitive levels, recognize them as objects which we can manipulate: we inspect them to discover what to use them for. The objects are tools or food; they are things, beautiful, lovable or frightening. They are things to remember and to talk about to our friends, or to ask someone for. We can ask for many or just a few. They are important to us or trivial.

• Emotion
• attention
• cognition
• intelligence
• perception
• semantics

• Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, USA

  Lucia M. Vaina

• Boston University, USA

  Lucia M. Vaina

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