Zenon Pylyshyn
| Zenon Pylyshyn | |
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| Born | 1937 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy, rationalism, cognitivism, functionalism |
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Main interests
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Vision, cognitive science, information theory |
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Notable ideas
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Visual indexing theory |
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Influences
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Zenon Walter Pylyshyn (born 1937) is a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher.
He holds degrees in engineering-physics (B.Eng. 1959) from McGill University and in control systems (M.Sc. 1960) and experimental psychology (Ph.D. 1963), both from the Regina Campus, University of Saskatchewan. His dissertation was on the application of information theory to studies of human short-term memory. He was a Canada Council Senior fellow from 1963–1964.
Pylyshyn was professor of psychology and computer science at the University of Western Ontario in London from 1964 until 1994, where he also held honorary positions in philosophy and electrical engineering and was director of the UWO Center for Cognitive Science. In 1994 he accepted positions as the Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science and as the director of the new Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Pylyshyn's most recent research involves the theoretical analysis of the nature of the human cognitive systems behind perception, imagination, and reasoning. He has also continued to develop his visual indexing theory (sometimes called the FINST theory) which hypothesizes a preconceptual mechanism responsible for individuating, tracking, and directly (or demonstratively) referring to the visual properties encoded by cognitive processes.
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