ABSTRACT

In the examples in Part II, I deliberately attempted to move away from top-down hierarchical descriptive cognitive models of memory, to understanding a mechanism that replicates and generalizes itself as behavior occurs. My exploration might be couched as follows: What if we apply Gibson’s (1966) phrase, “senses considered as perceptual systems” to the next level, perceptual-motor coordination considered as conceptual systems? How far can this analogy apply? Where does similarity of mechanism between the categorization of perceptual features and conceptualization break down?