Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With
methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves …

Given the large proportion of time spent by the average person indoors, it is imperative to
have an understanding of the impacts of long-term and immersive exposure to a variety of …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

We study the problem of object recognition for categories for which we have no training
examples, a task also called zero--data or zero-shot learning. This situation has hardly been …

In the last two decades, neuroscience studies have suggested that various psychological
phenomena are produced by predictive processes in the brain. When considered together …

Distributional semantic models derive computational representations of word meaning from
the patterns of co-occurrence of words in text. Such models have been a success story of …

We study the problem of object classification when training and test classes are disjoint, ie
no training examples of the target classes are available. This setup has hardly been studied …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

EBK: SENSATION/PERCEPTION Page 1 Page 2 E. Bruce Goldstein University of Pittsburgh
University of Arizona and Laura Cacciamani California Polytechnic State University Sensation …