The Symbolic Nature of Visual Imagery

Moran, Thomas P.

The Symbolic Nature of Visual Imagery

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Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Psychology and A.I. Pages 472-477.

Abstract

he issue is whether human visual imagery can be represented by symbolic structures and processes. Protocols of the task of imagining a path in space were anal yzed using a production system interpreter. A detailed simulation of the subject's behavior within the confines of a symbolic short-term memory (STM) demonstrates that symbol structures are sufficient to explain imaging behavior. The experience of programming with productions and a homogeneous STM has brought out the importance of a control lan guage when using an unstructured rule system. Descriptors : cognitive psychology, cognitive representation, v isual imagery, visual encoding, protocol analysis, simulation, production systems.

Thomas P. Moran. 1973. The Symbolic Nature of Visual Imagery. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-73. IJCAI, 472–477. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1973/60

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