CURRICULUM VITAE
October, 2012
Name:
PYLYSHYN, Zenon W.
Professor II of Psychology
Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University, Busch Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(732) 445-0635
Degree
University
Department
Year
B.Eng.
M.Sc.
Ph.D.
McGill University
University of Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
Engineering-Physics
Electrical Engineering
Experimental Psychology
1959
1961
1963
Academic and Professional Appointments
Date
Rank & Position
Department
Institution
1966-1994
1987-1994
1987-1994
19951993-
Professor
Honorary Professor
Director
Professor Emeritus
Board of Governors
Professor of Cognitive Science
Director
Psychology & Comp Sci
Philosophy & Elect Eng
Center for Cognitive Science
Psychology
University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
Psychology
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
Rutgers University
1993-1997
Honours and Fellowships
Conference in honor of Zenon Pylyshyn (Keynote address), University of Guelph, April 29-May 1, 2005.
Recipient of the Jean Nicod Prize for scientific work relevant to the foundations of Cognitive Science (presented the
Jean Nicod Lectures in Paris) 2004.
Attneave Memorial Lecture, U of Oregon, Nov 2003
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1997
Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1994
Recipient, Donald O. Hebb Award "For Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science",
Awarded by the Canadian Psychological Association, 1990
Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 1985-94
Killam Research Fellow, 1985-87
Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association, 1984
Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1979-80
Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, 1978-79
Canada Council Special Fellowship in Engineering, Science and Medicine, 1964-66
Scholarly and Professional Activities
President, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1982-83
President, Cognitive Science Society, 1985-86
Technical Advisory Board Member, BC Advanced Systems Institute, 1986-1995
Director, National Program in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 1985-1991
Technical Advisory Board Member, PRECARN Associates (Precompetitive Applied Research Network), 1987-1992
Member, Associate Committee on Artificial Intelligence, National Research Council of Canada, 1988-1990
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Editor, Series in Theoretical Issues in Cognitive Science, Ablex Publishing Company, 1981-1990
Editorial Boards:
Trends in Cognitive Science, 1999
Artificial Intelligence and Society - 1987Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science, 1981Cognitive Science, 1981-1995
Computational Intelligence, 1981Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 1981Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1987-2001
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1981-1991
Journal of Intelligent Systems, 1988-1999
Mind and Language, 1981Minds and Machines, 1990Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence - 1989Spatial Cognition and Computation - 1998
Associate Editor:
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1981-2007
Editor:
COSERS (Computer Science and Engineering Research Study) NSF Funded Report on
Artificial Intelligence, 1975-78
Visiting Professor:
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1975
Director:
Workshop Series on Information Processing Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1973
Visiting Fellow:
Institute for Mathematical Studies in Social Sciences, Stanford University, 1969-70
Member/Fellow:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (Fellow)
American Psychology Society
Association for Computing Machinery
Canadian Psychology Association (Fellow)
Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
Cognitive Science Society
Psychonomics Society
Society of Sigma XI
Thesis Supervision
A. Doctoral Thesis
B. Master's Thesis
C. Post-Doctoral Fellows
D. Total number of Ph.D. Committees served on
Completed
11
13
5
17
Titles and Topics of Theses Supervised and Completed
Ph.D
2011
Ph.D.
M.Sc.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
1999
1996
1996
1993
M.A.
M.Sc.
Ph.D.
M.Ed.
1993
1993
1992
1993
M.A.
1991
M.A.
Ph.D.
1991
1989
Haroutian H Haladjian (2011).
Enumerating by pointing to locations: A new method for
measuring the numerosity of visual object representations. (also published in part in Attention,
Perception and Psychophysics, 73(2), 303-308.)
Brian Scholl, “Objects and Attention”.
Brian Scholl, “Tracking objects through occlusion: Clues to objecthood”
Chris Sears, “Inhibition and Return of Visual Attention and Visual Indexing”
Jacquelyn Burkell, "FINSTing Multiple Loci in the Visual Field: Evidence for Simultaneous Attentional
Facilitation"
William Schmidt, "Multiple Loci for the Line-motion Illusion"
Brian Acton, "A Network Model of Visual Indexing and Attention"
Roy Eagleson, "Motion Analysis in Computer Vision for Robotic Control Tasks"
Helen Langford, "A Development Study of Task Context Upon Children's Use and Understanding of
Comparatives and Superatives"
Paul McKeever, "Nontarget Numerosity and Identity Maintenance with FINSTs: A Two Component
Account of Multiple Target Tracking"
Chris Sears, "Information Processing at Multiple Locations in the Visual Field"
Lana Trick, "Subitizing and Counting: Pre-Attentive and Attentive Processes in Visual Enumeration"
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Ph.D.
1989
Ph.D.
M.A.
1988
1969
Richard Wright, "Intermediate-level Visual Processing and the Perception of Inside/Outside Spatial
Relations"
Michael Dawson, "A local-computation model of apparent Motion and the Correspondence Problem"
Andrew Feldmar, "Syntactic Structure and Speech Decoding: Judgment of Auditory Sequence "
External Grants
Year
Individual or Group
2000-2004
1998-2003
1997-98
1998-2000
1995-96
1994-96
1992-96
1991
1991
1990-94
1989-92
1989-91
1988-89
1987-90
1986-89
Grantor
individual
PI for Group
PI for group
Group
Individual
PI for Group
NIMH
NIMH NRSA
SROA
SROA
Telelearning Center of Excellence
Institute for Robotics
and Intelligent Systems
Individual
NSERC
Individual
National Science Foundation
Individual
AFOSR/ONR
PI for Group Institute for Robotics
and Intelligent Systems
Individual
NSERC
PI for Group Information Technology
Research Centre
PI for Group Information Technology
Research Centre
Joint
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
(w/ J. Fodor)
Individual
NSERC
Purpose
Amount
Research
Training
HCI Center
Digital Libraries
Research
427,435
515,000
25,000
125,000
25,000
(Canada)
Research
Research
Conference
Conference
66,000
92,000
15,000
20,000
(Canada)
(Canada)
(Canada)
Research
Research
Research
361,000
69,000
512,600
(Canada)
(Canada)
(Canada)
Research
337,500
(Canada)
Book
57,200
Research
66,000
(Canada)
PUBLICATIONS
Career Totals:
Books: 10 (6 Edited)
Books in preparaton: 1 (MIT Press)
Chapters in Books and Proceedings: 54
Articles in Refereed Journals: 63 (1 Science Citation Classic)
Invited talks: 175
Conference Presentations: 132
Other Technical Writings: 30
Book Reviews: 5
Books (authored and edited)
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (2007). Things and Places: How the mind connects with the world. MIT Press (Jean Nicod Lectures Series)
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (2003). Seeing and visualizing: It’s not what you think. MIT Press..
Lepore, E. & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (Eds. & contributor) (1999). What is Cognitive Science? New York: Blackwell.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (Ed.), Constraining Cognitive Theories: Issues and Options, (1998). Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing.
Ford, K. and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (Ed. and Contributor), The Robot’s Dilemma Revisited, (1996). Stamford, CT: Ablex
Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., and Bannon, L. (Ed. and Contributor), (1989). Perspectives on the Computer Revolution. 2nd Edition.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (Ed.), (1988). Computational Processes in Human Vision: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Norwood, NJ:
Ablex Publishing.
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Pylyshyn, Z.W. (Ed.), (1987). The Robot's Dilemma: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence. Norwood, NJ: Ablex
Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. and Demopoulos, W. (Ed.), (1986). Meaning and Cognitive Structure: Issues in the Computational Theory of
Mind. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1984). Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: Bradford
Books/MIT Press. Japanese & Spanish translations published in 1987 & 1988 respectively. Chinese translation in process.
Papers in Refereed Journals
Franconeri, S., Jonathan, S. J., & Scimeca, J. M. (2010). Tracking Multiple Objects Is Limited Only by Object Spacing, Not
by Speed, Time, or Capacity. Psychological Science, 21(920-925).
Franconeri, S., Lin, J., Pylyshyn, Z., Fisher, B., & Enns, J. (2008). Evidence against a speed limit in multiple-object tracking.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(4), 802-808.
Franconeri, S. L., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Scholl, B. J. (2012). A simple proximity heuristic allows tracking of multiple objects
through occlusion. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72(4).
Haladjian, H. H., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2011). Enumerating by pointing to locations: A new method for measuring the
numerosity of visual object representations. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73(2), 303-308.
Keane, B. P., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2006). Is motion extrapolation employed in multiple object tracking? Tracking as a lowlevel, non-predictive function. Cognitive Psychology, 52(4), 346-368.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2004). Some puzzling findings in multiple object tracking (MOT): I. Tracking without keeping track of
object identities. Visual Cognition 11(7), 801-822.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2006). Some puzzling findings in multiple object tracking (MOT): II. Inhibition of moving nontargets.
Visual Cognition 14(2), 175-198.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2003). Return of the Mental Image: Are there really pictures in the brain? Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
7(3), 113-118.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Mental Imagery: In search of a theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(2), 157-237.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Stalking the elusive mental image screen. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 25(2), 217-237.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Seeing, acting and knowing: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 999.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2001). Visual indexes, preconceptual objects, and situated vision. Cognition, 87(1/2), 127-158.
Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (2001). What is a visual object: Evidence from multiple-object tracking.
Cognition 80, 159-177.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2000). Situating vision in the world. Trends in Cognitive Science, 4(5), 197-207
Sears, C., and Pylyshyn, Z.W., (2000). Multiple Object Tracking and Attention Processing. Canadian Journal of
Experimental Psychology.54(1), 1-14.
Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Holcombe, A. O. (2000). Tracking an object through feature-space. Nature, 408(Nov 9), 196199.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Is vision continuous with cognition? The case for cognitive impenetrability of visual perception.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(3), 341-423.
Pylyshyn Z.W. (1999). Vision and Cognition: How do they connect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(3), 401-423.
Scholl, B.J. & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1999). Tracking multiple items through occlusions: Clues to visual objecthood. Cognitive
Psychology, 38(2), 259-290.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1998). What's in the Mind: Constraints on mental Structures. General Psychology/Psicologia Generale,
576/98 (Special Issue on Mental Architectures), 25-43.
Schmidt, W., Fisher, B.D. & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1998). Multiple location access in vision: Evidence from illusory line-motion.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance and Perception, 24(2), 505-525.
Burkell, J.A., and Pylyshyn, Z.W., (1997). Searching through selected subsets of visual displays: A test of the FINST
indexing hypothesis. Spatial Vision, 11, 225-258.
Fisher, B.D., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1994). The Cognitive architecture of bimodal event perception: a commentary and
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addendum to Radeau (1994). Current Psychology of Cognition, 13(1), 92-96.
Trick, L.M., & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1994). Cuing and counting: Does the position of the attentional focus affect enumeration?
Visual Cognition, 1(1), 67-100.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., (1994). Some primitive mechanisms of spatial attention. Cognition, 50, 363-384.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., Burkell, J.A., Fisher, B.D., Sears, C., Schmidt, W.C. & Trick, L.M. (1994). Multiple parallel access in visual
attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48(2), 260-283.
Trick, L.M., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1994). Why are small and large numbers enumerated differently? A limited capacity
preattentive stage in vision. Psychological Review, 101(1), 1-23.
Trick, L.M., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). What enumeration studies can show us about spatial attention: Evidence for limited
capacity preattentive processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19(2), 331351.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1989). The role of location indexes in spatial perception: A sketch of FINST spatial-index model.
Cognition, 32, 65-97.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., and Storm, R.W. (1988). Tracking multiple independent targets: Evidence for a parallel tracking mechanism.
Spatial Vision, 3, 179-197.
Fodor, J.A. and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis. Cognition, 28, 3-71.
Wright, R.D., Dawson, M.R.W., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Spatio-temporal parameters and the three-dimensionality of
apparent motion: Evidence for two types of processing. Spatial Vision, 4, 263-272.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1987). What's in a mind? Synthese, 70, 97-122.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. and Kittredge, R.I. (1985). Databases and natural language processing. IEEE Database Engineering, 8, 2-9.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1985). Alternatives to the use of natural language in interfacing to databases. IEEE Database Engineering, 8,
56-63.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1982). Literature from cognitive psychology: Correspondent's report. Artificial Intelligence, 19(2), 251-255.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1981). Psychological explanation and knowledge-dependent processes. Cognition, 10, 267-274.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. and Fodor, J.A. (1981). How direct is visual perception: Some reflections on Gibson's "Ecological approach".
Cognition, 9, 139-196.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1981). The imagery debate: Analogue media versus tacit knowledge. Psychological Review, 88, 16-45.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1980). Cognitive Representation and the Process-architecture Distinction, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3,
154-163.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1980). The "Casual Powers" of Machines. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 442.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1980). Cognition and Computation: Issues in the Foundations of Cognitive Science. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 3, 111-132.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). Do Mental Events Have Durations? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1979, 2.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). Imagery Theory: Not Mysterious, Just Wrong. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2. Reprinted in N.
Block (ed.) Imagery, MIT Press, 1981.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). The Rate of "Mental Rotation" in Images: A Test of a Holistic Analogue Hypothesis. Memory and
Cognition, 7, 19-28.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). Validating Computational Models: A Critique of Anderson's Indeterminacy of Representation
Claim. Psychological Review, 86(4), 383-394.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1978). When is Attribution of Beliefs Justified? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(4), 592-593.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1978). Computational Models and Empirical Constraints. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 93-99.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1978). The A.I. Debate: Generality, Goals, and Methodological Parochialism. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 1, 121-127.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1974-75). Minds, Machines & Phenomenology, Cognition, 3, 57-77.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1973). What the Mind's Eye Tells the Mind's Brain: A Critique of Mental Imagery. Psychological Bulletin,
80, 1-24.
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Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1973). The Role of Competence Theories in Cognitive Psychology. Journal of Psycholinguistics Research,
2, 21-50.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1972). Are There Discovery Procedures? Journal of British Psychological Society, 25, 189-192.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1972). Competence and Psychological Reality. American Psychologist, 27, 546-552.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1972). Can Subjective Experience Cause Brain Activity? American Psychologist, 27, 509-510.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1970). Clinical Correlates of some Syntactic Features of Patients' Speech. Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease, 150, 307-316.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1970). A Fortran-IV Program Illustrating an Information Processing Theory of Verbal Learning. Behavioral
Science, 15, 465.
With A. Reynolds. (1970). Stylostatistics of Various Psychiatric Groups. Language and Speech, 13, 194-198.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1969). FINDSIT: A Computer Program for Language Research. Behavioral Science, 4, 248-251.
With A. Feldman. (1968). Grammatical Category as Mediator. Psychonomic Science, 13, 115-116.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1968). Computer Enrichment of Psychological Research. Canadian Psychologist, 9, 337-343.
With N. Agnew & E.J. Illingworth. (1966). Comparison of Individuals and Pairs as Participants in M mixed-motive Game.
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 10, 211-220.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1965). The Effect of a Brief Interpolated Task on Short-term Retention. Canadian Journal of Psychology,
19, 280, 287.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1965). Information Available from two Consecutive Exposures of Visual Displays. Canadian Journal of
Psychology, 19, 133-144.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1963). Search Strategy and Problem Structure in Heuristic Problem Solving. Canadian Journal of
Psychology, 17, 291-301.
With N. Agnew. (1963). The Validity of Anxiety and Drive Scales and Their Relation to Global Self-ratings. Canadian
Psychologist, 4, 42-50.
With S. Pyke & N. Agnew. (1962). Information Transfer in Absolute Judgment as a Function of Noxious Stimulation and
Exposure Time. Percept. Motor Skills, 15, 779-782.
With N. Agnew. (1962). Absolute Judgment of Distance as a Function of Anxiety and Exposure Time. Percept. Motor Skills,
14, 411-418.
Chapters in Books and Proceedings
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2001). Connecting vision and the world: Tracking the missing link. In A. Marques, J. Branquinho, & J.
Saagua (Eds.), The Foundations of Cognitive Science . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2001). Is the imagery debate over? If so what was it about? In E. Dupoux (Ed.), Cognition: a critical look.
Advances, questions and controversies in honour of J. Mehler . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). What's in your mind? In E. Lepore & Z. W. Pylyshyn (Eds.), What is Cognitive Science? (pp. 1-25).
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1998). Visual Indexes in Spatial Perception and Mental Imagery. In R. Wright’s (Ed.) Vision and Attention,
New York: Oxford University Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., (1998). Modularity of Mind, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., (1998). Cognitive Architecture, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., (1996). The Frame Problem Blues: Once More, With Feeling. In K. Ford and Z.W. Pylyshyn (Eds.), The
Robot’s Dilemma Revisited. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1996). The Study of Cognitive Architecture. In Mind Matters: Contributions to Cognitive Science in honor
of Allen Newell. D. Steier and T. Mitchell (Eds.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1995) What's in the Mind: Constraints on Mental Structures. Published in a special monographic issue on
Mental Architecture, Comunicazioni Scientifiche di Psicologia Generale, Scientific Contributions to General Psychology,
14 n.s., Rome, Italy.
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Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). Metaphorical Imprecision and the "Top Down" Research Strategy. In Andrew Ortony (Ed).,
Metaphor and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). Computers and the symbolization of knowledge. In Morelli, Anselmi, Brown, Haberlandt and Lloyd
(Eds.). Minds, brains, and computers: Perspectives in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Norwood, NJ: Ablex
Publishing Corporation.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). What's in a mind? In D. Cole, J.H. Fetzer and T.L. Rankin (Eds.), Philosophy, Mind and Cognitive
Inquiry: Resources for Understanding Mental Processes. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Eagleson, R., Burkell, J.A., & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). Exogenous Attention Facilitates Discrimination of Affine Motion
Components. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 34(4), Item 1630, p.1033.
Eagleson, R., & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). Measurement of the 2D Affine Lie Group Parameters for Visual Motion Analysis.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 33(4), Item 2261, p.1144.
Fisher, B.D., Schmidt, W.C. & Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1993). Multiple abrupt onset cues produce illusory line motion. Investigative
Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 33:4, 778.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1991). The role of cognitive architecture in theories of cognition. In K. VanLehn (Ed.), Architectures for
Intelligence. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1991). Some remarks on the theory-practice gap. In J. Carroll (Ed.). Designing Interaction. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1991). Rules and representations: Chomsky and representational realism. In A. Kasher (Ed.), The
Chomskyan Turn. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Limited.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1989). Computing in Cognitive Science. In M.I. Posner (Ed.), Foundation of Cognitive Science,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1990). Can you save procedural semantics by turning it into a theory of semantic linguistics? In P. Hanson
(Ed.), Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1989). What is artificial intelligence? (Extract from COSERS Report, 1980). In Z.W. Pylyshyn and L.
Bannon (Eds.) Perspectives on the Computer Revolution: 2nd Edition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1989). Computers, knowledge and the human mind. In Z.W. Pylyshyn and L. Bannon (Eds.). Perspectives
on the Computer Revolution. 2nd Edition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Dawson, M.R., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Natural constraints in apparent motion. In Z.W. Pylyshyn (Ed.), Computational
Processes in Human Vision: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Fodor, J.A., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis. In J. Mehler and S.
Pinker (Eds.), Connections and Symbols. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Fodor, J.A. and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis. In D. Cole, J.H. Fetzer
and T.L. Rankin (Eds.), Philosophy, Mind and Cognitive Inquiry: Resources for Understanding Mental Processes. The
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Here and there in the visual field. In Z.W. Pylyshyn (Ed.), Computational Processes in Human
Vision: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Trick, L., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1988). Spatial attention and subitizing: An investigation of the FINST hypothesis.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates Inc.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1987). Computers, knowledge, and the human mind. In D.G. Tuerck (Ed.), Creativity and Liberal Learning.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1987). Cognitive science. In S. Shapiro (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. New York: John
Wiley.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1986). Cognitive science and the study of cognition and perception. In H. Nusbaum and E. Schwab (Eds.),
Pattern Recognition by Humans and Machines Vol. 1. New York: Academic Press.
Dawson, M., and Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1986). Using relative velocity information to constrain the motion correspondence
problem: Psychophysical data and a computational model. Proceedings of the Sixth Canadian Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. University of Quebec Press.
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Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1985). Artificial intelligence. New Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton: New Canadian Encyclopedia
Publishing.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1984). Computers and the symbolization of knowledge. In D. deKerckhove and A. Iannucci (Eds.),
McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (pp. 235-247). Rome: Bulzoni.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1984). Plasticity and invariance in cognitive development. In J. Mehler and R. Fox (Eds.), Neonate
Cognition: Beyond the Blooming and Buzzing Confusion (pp. 403-415). Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1983). Information science: Its roots and relations as viewed from the perspective of cognitive science. In F.
Machlup and U. Mansfield (Eds.), The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. (pp. 63-80). New York: John
Wiley and Sons.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1983). Representation, computation and cognition. In F. Machlup and U. Mansfield (Eds.), The Study of
Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. (pp. 115-118). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1983). A psychological approach to language. In M. Studdert-Kennedy (Ed.), Psychobiology of Language
(pp. 16-19). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1983). Syntax as an autonomous component of language. In M. Studdert-Kennedy (Ed.), Psychobiology of
Language (pp. 147-151). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1981). Imagery and artificial intelligence. In N. Block (Ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology Vol.
2 (pp. 170-194). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1981). Cognitive structure and the plasticity of mind. In T. Di Francia and M. Piatelli-Palmarini (Eds.), Le
Leggi Della Forma (The Laws of Form).
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1980). Chapter on Artificial Intelligence. In B. Arden (Ed.), What can be Automated: The Computer
Science and Engineering Research Study. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (As Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence panel)
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1980). Complexity and the Study of Human and Machine Intelligence. In J. Haugeland (Ed.), Mind Design.
Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). Metaphorical Imprecision and the "Top Down" Research Strategy. In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and
Thought. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). Complexity and the Study of Artificial and Human Intelligence. In M. Ringle (Ed.), Philosophical
Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence. New York: The Humanities Press
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1979). Imagery Theory: Not Mysterious, Just Wrong. In N. Block (ed.) Imagery, MIT Press, 1981.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1978). Imagery and Artificial Intelligence. In W. Savage (Ed.), Perception and Cognition: Issues in the
Foundations of Psychology (Volume IX of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science). Minneapolis,
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1978). What has Language to do with Perception? -- Some Speculations on the lingua mentis. In D. Waltz
(Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (TINLAP-2). Washington, DC:
Association for Computing Machinery.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1977). What Does it Take to Bootstrap a Language? In J. Mcnamara (Ed.), Language Learning and
Thought, Ch. 3, 37-46. New York: Academic Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1977). Children's Internal Descriptions. In J. Mcnamara (Ed.), Language Learning and Thought, Ch. 12,
169-176. New York: Academic Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1977). Computer Models of Language Comprehension. International Encyclopedia of Neurology,
Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Vol. VI, 345-349. New York: Humanities Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1976). Le Role des Theories de la Competence en Psychologie Cognitive. In R. Sarazin (Ed.),
Psycholinguistique Theoretique et Experimentale. Universite de Quebec Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. Further Thoughts on Competence, Performance, and the Status of Grammar. In R. Sarazin (Ed.),
Psycholinguistique Theoretique et Experimentale. Universite de Quebec Press.
Pylyshyn, Z.W., Elcock, E.W., Marmor, M. and Sander, P. (1978). Explorations in Visual-motor Spaces. Proceedings of the
Second International Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. Toronto, Ontario:
University of Toronto.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1963). Coding in Perception and Immediate Memory. Paper presented at the International Congress of
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Psychology, Washington, DC,.
Submitted papers (under review)
Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Franconeri, S. L. (under revision). The relationship between property-encoding and objectbased attention: Evidence from multiple-object tracking. Cognitive Psychology.
Book Reviews:
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2001). Why the mind is (still) not a network (Review of Marcus: The Algebraic Mind). Trends in Cognitive
Science, 5(11), 499.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1999). Review of "Concepts: Where cognitive science went wrong" by Jerry A. Fodor. Trends in Cognitive
Science, 3(2), 81-82.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1994). Review of "Image and the Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate" by Stephen M. Kosslyn,
Nature, Vol. 372, 17, November 1994.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1981). The nativists are restless: Review of M.Piatelli-Palmarini (Ed.), Language and Learning: The debate
between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. Contemporary Psychology, 26, 501.504.
Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1975). Review of Sheehan, P. (Ed.), "The Function and Nature of Imagery". American Scientist, 3, 238.
Keynote addresses and Invited talks
April 2005
May 2004
Sept 2003
April 2003
Nov 3, 2003
May 27, 2002
Keynote address, Zenon Pylyshyn Conference (zencon.ca)
Jean Nicod Lectures, Paris
European Conference on Visual Perception (Invited).
NYU Philosophy & Cogitive Science lecture
Attneave Memorial Lecture, U of Oregon, Cognitive Science
Where has Artificial Intelligence been and where is it going? Keynote address. Annual meeting of the
Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. Calgary.
Oct, 2001
What is Cognitive Science? Cognitive Science Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal
Oct, 2001
Mental Imagery: In search of a theory. Psychology Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal
May, 2001
Do we think in language? Conference on Language and Mind. Collége de France, Paris
Dec, 1999
Invited talk. “Visual indexes as demonstrative reference.” Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont.
August, 1999.
Invited talk. “Visual Indexes and Situated Vision”. Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting.
Vancouver, BC.
Aug, 1999
Situating vision in the world. Invited paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cognitive
Science, Vancouver, BC.
March, 1996:
Invited Speaker, “The Role of Visual Indexes in Spatial Perception and Imagery”, American Association
for Artificial Intelligence 1996 Spring Symposium, Stanford University, California.
February, 1996: Invited Speaker, “The Theory-Practice Gap in Human Computer Interaction”, Simon Fraser University
Conference on Attention, Vancouver, British Columbia.
November, 1995: Invited Speaker, “‘Here’ and ‘There’ in the Visual Field”, New York University Colloquium, New York.
September, 1995: Invited Speaker, “Mechanisms for Allocating Visual Attention”, The Institute for Research in Cognitive
Science Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.
September, 1995: Keynote Speaker, “Constraints on Mental Structure”, VIII European Conference on Cognitive Psychology,
Rome, Italy.
May, 1995:
Invited Speaker, “Mental Imagery" and “Studies in the Architecture of Mind: A Central Theme in
Cognitive Science Research”, ICCS-95, University of Basque, San Sebastian, Spain.
March, 1995:
Invited Panel Discussion on “Visual Neglect" Woodstock, England. Organized by John Marshall & Peter
Halligan.
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February, 1995: Invited Speaker, "Primitive Mechanisms of Visual Attention", Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.
April, 1994:
Invited Speaker, "What is Cognitive Science?", University of Toronto Cognitive Science Society, Toronto,
Ontario.
December, 1993: Invited Speaker, "What is in a Mind?", Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario.
November, 1993: Invited Speaker, Panel on Science Funding, Sponsored by the Sigma Xi Society, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
June, 1993:
(with Sears, C., & Schmidt, W.C.) Paper Presentation, "Negative priming in a Localization Task: Inhibition
of Distractor Objects or Distractor Locations?", Annual Meeting of the Brain, Behavior and Cognition
Society, Toronto, Ontario.
June, 1993:
(with Schmidt, W.C.) Poster Presentation, "Stereopsis Alone Can Produce Looming: Implications for 3D
Display Techniques, IRIS/PRECARN Research Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
June, 1993:
(with Schmidt, W.C., & Fisher, B.D.) Poster Presentation, "Date-driven Indexing of Multiple Display Items
Speeds Early Visual Processing: Evidence for the FINST hypothesis", IRIS/PRECARN Research
Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
June, 1993:
(with Eagleson, R., & Burkell, J.A.) Poster Presentation, "Affine Motion Perception Using Spatial
Indexing", IRIS/PRECARN Research Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
May, 1993:
Chair, Speaker and Organizer, "IRIS - Group B-4 Knowledge Based Systems Workshop", Sponsored by
UWO Group and held at London, Ontario.
July, 1992:
Invited Keynote Address, "Cognitive Science: Mental Alchemy or the only Game in Town", XXV
International Congress of Psychology, Brussels.
April, 1992:
Invited Speaker and Conference Co-Organizer, "Summary of UWO Research", Design and Human
Interfaces Workshop, Iris Project B4, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Dec, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "Research and Visual Attention", Institute for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.
Nov, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "A Theory of Visual Indexing", Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
Oct, 1991:
Invited Speaker and Conference Organizer, "Cognitive Architecture: What is it and why study it?",
Inaugural Conference of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
Oct, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "Architecture of Intermediate Level Vision", Cognitive Science Program, Princeton
University, Princeton, New Jersey.
May, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "Computing and knowledge-dependent processing: Studies in the computational
architecture of mind", Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
May, 1991:
Invited Plenary Chair and Group Leader, "Why do we need representations?", The Second International
Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition, Special Topic: Android Epistemology, Pensacola, Florida.
April, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "Studies in the architecture of mind", Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of
Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
April, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "The architecture of the mind", Centre Nationale des Recherche Scientific, Paris, France.
April, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "FINSTs and spatial indexing: A model", L'École des Hautes Etudes, Laboratoire de
Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, France.
April, 1991:
Symposium Commentator, "Why, after all is said and done, we will still need symbol structures", Annual
Conference of the British Psychological Society, Bournemouth, England.
April, 1991:
Conference Fellow, "Studies in the architecture of mind: A central theme in cognitive science research",
Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Bournemouth, England.
April, 1991:
Invited Speaker, "Visual attention and visual indexing", Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Nov, 1990:
Invited Speaker, "Visual Locatives", Columbia University, New York, New York.
Nov, 1990:
Invited Speaker, "Cognitive Science and Computation", Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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March, 1988:
March, 1988:
March, 1988:
March, 1988:
Invited Speaker, "A Theory of Visual Indexing", Bellcore Laboratories, Morristown, New Jersey.
Invited Lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic
Space", Las Navas del Marques, Spain.
Invited Speaker, "Modularity and Imagery: Do behavioral data on mental imagery provide constraints on
brain organization?", International Neuropsychological Symposium, Nafplio, Greece.
Invited Speaker, Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention, "Studies in the Architecture of
Mind: A central theme in cognitive science research", Ottawa, Ontario.
Invited talk for Kaleidoscope '90, "Computers and the Symbolization of Knowledge", University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Invited Participant, Mini Symposium on Mental Models, "What do we need nondiscursive models for?",
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Recent challenges to the computational theory of mind", University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Invited Talks, "Computation and Cognition" and "Computers, knowledge and the Human Mind", University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
Distinguished Speaker Series, "Challenges to the classical view of cognition as symbolic computation",
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Invited Lecturer, Workshop on Cognitive Theory and Design in Human-Computer Interaction, "Some
thoughts on the theory-practice gap", IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, Cappaqua, New York.
"Encoding the "Here" and "There" in a visual scene: A sketch of the FINST spatial indexing hypotheses".
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Invited Talk, "Computers and Symbolization of Knowledge", Nystal Distinguished Lecture Series,
University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.
Session Chairman, Workshop on the Frame Problem, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.
(Invited)
Invited Address, "What is Design?", Spar Aerospace, Toronto, Ontario.
Invited Talk, "Computers, Symbols & the Mechanization of Knowledge", Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut.
Invited Talk, "Problems with connectionism", Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Invited Talk, "Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind", University of Western Ontario Alumni
Association, London, Ontario.
Invited Talk, Mental Representations Conference, Mind and Brain: Perspectives in Theoretical Psychology
and the Philosophy of the Mind, "Computation and Representation", Centre for Interdisciplinary Research,
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Invited speaker, Twenty-Second Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition, "Architecture and Strong
Equivalence", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Invited Talk, "Rules and Representations: Chomsky and Representational Realism", presented at conference
on "The Chomskyan Turn", University of Tel Aviv and University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Invited Talk, "The FINST Indexing Hypothesis and its Implications", Graduate Studies and Research
Initiative in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New
York.
Invited Talk, "Problems with Connectionist Models", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Modularity of Cognitive Architecture", Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium,
University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Invited Talk, "Problems with Connectionist Models", Cognitive Science Program, University of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Invited Talk, "Encoding "Here" and "There" in the Visual Field: A Sketch of the FINST Indexing
Hypothesis and Its Implications", Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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May, 1987:
March, 1987:
March, 1987:
Oct, 1986:
Aug, 1986:
July, 1986:
June, 1986:
May, 1986:
May, 1986:
April, 1986:
Invited Talk, "Present issues concerning the Foundational Assumptions of Cognitive Science", Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Invited Commentator, Conference on Information, Language, and Cognition, “Can you Save Procedural
Semantics by Turning It Into a Theory of Semantic Competence?", Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
British Columbia.
Invited Talk, "Mental Representation and Computational Theory", Institute of Cultural and Linguistic
Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Talk, "Computing and Knowledge-dependent Processing: On the Basic Assumptions of Cognitive
Science", Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Talk, "What are Connectionist Models Really Modelling", Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Tokyo,
Japan.
Invited Talk, "AI in Canada", Electro-Technical Lab, Tsukuba, Japan.
Invited Talk, "Connectionism and its Problems", Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Invited Talk, "Canadian Initiatives in the Development of a Research and Development Program in
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Invited Talk, "Modularity of Vision", Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Invited Talk, "Connectionism and its problems", ICOT Fifth Generation Computing Project, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Talk, "Computing and Knowledge-dependent Processing: The Basic Assumption of Cognitive
Science", Queens College of The City University of New York, Flushing, New York.
Invited Talk, "Computing and Knowledge-dependent Processing: The Basic Assumption of Cognitive
Science", Institute for Computer Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
Paper Presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting, "Tracking Multiple Independent Targets",
Seattle, Washington.
Invited Talk, "Computers and the Symbolization of Knowledge", International Summer Institute for
Semiotic and Structural Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Invited Talk, "The Need for an Abstract Representation of Actions: Comments on Conference
Presentations", Conference on Vision and Action: The Control of Grasping, The University of Western
Ontario, London.
Invited Talk, "What are Connectionist Models About?", Workshop on Connectionist Models in Computer
and Cognitive Science, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Systems Research Center, University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Invited Talk, "What are Connectionist Models About?", Connectionism and Computation: Models of Mind
in the Cognitive Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Invited Panelist, "High Technology and Innovation in Canada". Business Opportunities Forum, Toronto,
Ontario.
Invited Talk, "Cognitive Science: Mechanisms and Representations", Distinguished Lecture Series, Faculté
des etudes superieures, Université de Montreal, Montreal.
Presidential Address, "Spring and Fall Fashions in Cognitive Science", Cognitive Science Society 8th
Annual Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Prospects for the Development of an International Network of Cognitive Science Societies",
Task Force on Cognitive Science: International Union of Psychological Sciences, Zurich, Germany.
Keynote Speaker, "The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Canadian Perspective", Software
Panorama, Toronto, Ontario.
Invited talk, "Is the Computer a Good Metaphor for Human Thinking?" World Congress on Education and
Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Invited talk, "Artificial Intelligence & Fifth Generation Research and Development" World Congress on
Education and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Invited Speaker, Workshop on Vision, "Here and There in the Visual Field", University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario.
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April, 1986:
Guest Panelist, "The Computational Conception of Mind", Philosophy Department Inaugural Celebration,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
February, 1986: Invited Talk, "Computation and Representation" Conference on Representation, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Feb, 1986:
Invited Talk, "Programs as models: Can there be a strong equivalence?", Workshop on the Foundations of
Artificial Intelligence, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New
Mexico.
Oct, 1985:
"Canadian needs in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation",
Department of Communication, Ottawa, Ontario.
Oct, 1985:
"Research in Cognitive Science", Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Conference, Benmiller,
Ontario.
Oct, 1985:
Colloquium, "Explanatory Adequacy and Computational Models", Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
May, 1985:
Invited Lecturer, three lecture series, "Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind", Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario.
April, 1985:
Colloquium, "Explanatory Adequacy and Computational Models", 84/85 Artificial Intelligence Lecture
Series, Yale Artificial Intelligence Project, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut.
March, 1985:
Invited Lecture, "The Coming of the Smart Computer: Artificial Intelligence and the Fifth Generation
Computing", S.W. Ontario Chapter of Financial Executives Institute, London, Ontario.
March, 1985:
Invited Lecture, "How to Pick up Information", Psychology and Cognitive Science Symposium on
Perception and Interpretation, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, Toronto, Ontario.
Feb, 1985:
Workshop on "Computers, Knowledge and the Human Mind", Creativity and the Implementation of
Change: Liberal Learning in the Practical World, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Feb, 1985:
Colloquium, "Here and There in the Visual Field", Departments of Psychology and Computer Science,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jan, 1985:
NSERC Site Visit, University of Toronto, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario.
Jan, 1985:
Guest Panelist, "New Tools for the Workplace", Federation Institute of Management, Symposium '85,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Dec, 1984:
Program Project Review, Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
Nov, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind", Saturday Evening Lecture Series, University
of British Columbia, sponsored by the Vancouver Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Oct, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinary Implications", A Symposium on Fifth Generation
Computing: The Hard Problems", sponsored by Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
and Computer System Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario.
Oct, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "Artificial Intelligence: The Mechanization of Knowledge", Festival of Arts and
Technology, North Bay, Ontario.
Oct, 1984:
Advisory Committee on Priorities for Organizational Research of the Canadian Workplace Automation
Research Centre, Department of Communication, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Aug, 1984:
Workshop Lecturer, "Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Transportation, Transport Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario.
Aug, 1984:
NSERC Site Visit, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
June, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "Connectionism vs. Rules: The Nature of Theoretical Explanation in the Cognitive
Sciences", Cognitive Science Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
June, 1984:
Invited Participant, Workshop for Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Vancouver, British Columbia.
May, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "Comments on Chomsky's "Changing Perspectives on Knowledge and Use of Language",
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Massachusetts Institute for
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
May, 1984:
Invited Participant, OCGS/COU Colloquia, Ontario Council on Graduate Studies Colloquia, Graduate
Education: Strategies for the Future I: New Technologies and the Electronic Age, Toronto, Ontario.
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April, 1984:
Invited Lecturer, two week workshop, Foundations of Cognitive Science. University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario.
March, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "What is A.I?: What the Cognos Study Produced and What Worldwide Effects it will have
on the EDP Professional World At Large", Canadian Information Processing Society, Ottawa, Ontario.
March, 1984:
Invited Lecture, "What is Artificial Intelligence?", Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Science
Council Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Ottawa, Ontario.
March, 1984:
Invited Participant, NSERC Sponsored Workshop on Research Directions in Fifth Generation Computing,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Dec, 1983:
Program Project Review, Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
Nov, 1983:
Colloquium, "Psychological Reality of Algorithms: Towards a Notion of Strong Equivalence",
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Oct, 1983:
Colloquium, "Cognitive Science Meets Artificial Intelligence", Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British
Columbia.
Oct, 1983:
Invited Lecture, "What Robotics Can Learn From Cognitive Psychology", Robotics Workshop, University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
Oct, 1983:
Colloquium, Cognitive Science: The Computation View of Mind, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
May, 1983:
Panel Participant, "The Computer Metaphor", Cognitive Science Society, Rochester, New York.
Jan, 1983:
Opening Lecture, Science Council of Canada Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Ottawa, Ontario.
Dec, 1982:
Program Project Review, Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
Dec, 1982:
Advisory Board, Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, New York, New York.
Nov, 1982:
Colloquium, Department of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
Nov, 1982:
International Conference on "McLuhan e la Matamorfosi dell' uomo", Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy,
Sponsored by the Canadian Academic Centre in Italy.
Sept, 1982:
Invited Talk, Conference on Parsing Natural Language, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
July, 1982:
Designing a Cognitive Science Curriculum, Conference on Cognitive Science Curricula, University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York.
June, 1982:
Invited Lecture, "The Debate Over the Autonomy of Lexical Access Mechanisms", Conference on On-line
Sentence Processing, Port Camargue, France.
May, 1982:
Presidential Address, "Whereof One Cannot Speak", Society for Philosophy and Psychology, London,
Ontario.
April, 1982:
Workshop on Modularity of Mind, "Cognitive Impenetrability and the Modularity of Mind Thesis",
Neuroscience Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
March, 1982:
Colloquium, "Tacit Knowledge and Cognitive Mechanisms", University of Toronto (OISE), Toronto,
Ontario.
November, 1981: Colloquium, "Plasticity and Invariance in Cognitive Development", H.F. Guggenheim Symposium on
Neonate and Infant Cognition, New York, New York.
August, 1981:
Colloquium, "Tacit Knowledge and the Representational Theory of the Mind", Conference on Cognition,
Information and the Mind/Brain, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
July, 1981:
Lectures on the Computation Theory of Mind. National Endowments for the Humanities, (two weeks),
Summer Institute for Philosophy and Psychology, Seattle, Washington.
June, 1981:
Invited Lecture, "Mental Representations and Their Semantic Interpretation", Symposium on
Psychosemantics. Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta.
May, 1981:
Alfred P. Sloan Workshop on current issues in Cognitive Science, New Orleans, Louisiana.
May, 1981:
Colloquium, "Psychological Explanation and Knowledge Dependent Processes", University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario.
April, 1981:
Panel on Direct vs. Constructive Explanations of Perception, Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Chicago, Illinois.
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Nov, 1976:
Aug, 1976:
June, 1976:
May, 1976:
April, 1976:
Symposium, "Psychological Evidence for the Autonomy of Syntax", Symposium on Neurolinguistics,
Neuroscience Research Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Colloquium, "What's Special About Cognitive Science", McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Invited Talk, "Cognitive Structure and the Plasticity of Mind", Florence Center for the History and
Philosophy of Science, Florence, Italy.
Sloan Foundation Visiting Lecture Series, Center for Cognitive Science, University of California at
Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Panel on Artificial Intelligence, IBM Distinguished Lecture Series, New York, New York.
Symposium on Brain and Consciousness, Philosophy and Psychology Society Conference, New York, New
York.
Colloquium, "Computational Explanations of Cognition", Department of Psychology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Colloquium, "Research on Mental Imagery", Hampshire College and University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Foundations of Cognitive Science", New Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Comments on Semantic Primitives", Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Invited Participant, Panel on Language and Perception Conference on Theoretical Issues in Natural
Language Processing, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
Invited Lecture, "Computer Models and Explanations", Bolt, Barenek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Chairman, Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Linguistic Approaches to Language, Society for Philosophy
and Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Colloquium, Center for Human Learning, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Colloquium, "Computer Models of Cognition", Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec.
Colloquium, Computational Explanations of Cognition and Imagery, Alfred P. Sloan workshop on Mental
Representation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Workshop on the Future Development of Cognitive Science (advisory committee to the Sloan Foundation),
New York, New York.
Invited Paper, "Metaphorical Imprecision and the Top-Down Research Strategy", Conference on Metaphor
and Thought, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
Invited Paper, "Constraining Computational Models of Cognition", First National Symposium on
Philosophy and Computer Technology, New Paltz, New York.
Invited Participant, Symposium on Mental Representation, Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Invited Talk, "What are Thoughts Made of?", Psychology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
Three lectures on recent trends in Artificial Intelligence, Visiting Lecture Series, State University of New
York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
Key-note Address, "The Scientific and Technological Status of Artificial Intelligence", First National
Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
Invited Talk, "What do 'Mental Manipulation' Experiments Tell Us About the Form of Thought?",
University of California, San Diego, California.
Colloquium, Competence, Performance and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Linguistics, McGill
University, Montreal, Quebec.
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July, 1974:
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Sept, 1972:
March, 1972:
March, 1972:
March, 1972:
Invited Paper, "Imagery and Artificial Intelligence", Conference on Perception, Cognition, Knowledge and
Mind, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Invited Paper, "Non-Linguistic Representations: Do We Need Analogues?", Conference on Theoretical
Issues in Natural Language Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Colloquium, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Colloquium, Representation Systems, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Invited Papers, "What Does it Take to Bootstrap a Language?" and, "Children's Internal Descriptions",
Conference on Language Learning and Thought, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Invited Talk, "Cognitive Science: Psychologically Motivated A.I.", Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Problems of Cognitive Representation", University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh.
Symposium on the Role of Imagery in Instruction, APA Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Invited Papers, "The Symbolic Nature of Mental Representations" and "Complexity and the Study of
Human and Machine Intelligence", Symposium on Objectives and Methodologies for Artificial
Intelligence. Australia National University, Canberra, Australia.
Invited Talk, "The Symbolic Nature of Mental Imagery", University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Invited Talk, "Competence and Performance Approaches to Language", Logic and Language Committee,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Colloquium, On Imaginal Representations, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Invited Talk, "Cognition and Conscious Awareness", Structural Learning Conference, University of
Pennsylvania.
Invited Talk, "The Problem of Cognitive Representation", McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Presentations at peer reviewed meetings
May, 2012
May, 2011
May, 2011
May, 2011
May, 2010
May, 2009
May, 2009
May, 2006
May 2004
May 2004
May, 2004
Naqvi, M., Zish, K., Planer, R., Aks, D., & Pylyshyn, Z. (2012). Effect of Occlusion and Landmarks on
Single Object Tracking During Disrupted Viewing. Journal of Vision, 12(9), 550.
Haladjian, H., Griffith, A., & Pylyshyn, Z. (2011). The attentional blink impairs localization but not
enumeration performance in an “enumerating-by-pointing” task. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 201.
Alley, L., Rathakrishnan, V., Harman, C., Kourtev, H., Kuegel, A., Haladjian, H., et al. (2011). Tracking
objects and tracking our eyes during disrupted viewing. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 277.
Aks, D., Alley, L., Rathakrishnan, V., Kourtev, H., Haladjian, H., & Pylyshyn, Z. (2011). When vision loses
its “grip” on tracked objects: Lessons from studying gaze-to-item dynamics. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 276.
Haladjian, H., Pylyshyn, Z., & Gallistel, C. (2010). Enumeration by location: Exploring the role of spatial
information in numerosity judgments. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 323.
Haladjian, H., Pylyshyn, Z., & Kugel, A. (2009). Multiple object tracking through temporal gaps created by
the fading of objects. Journal of Vision, 9(8), 246.
Aks, D., Haladjian, H., Pylyshyn, Z., & Hakkinen, A. (2009). Eye-blinks and tracking. Journal of Vision,
9(8), 249.
Montemayor, C., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2006). Are items encoded into VSTM when they are selected for
tracking in MOT? Explorations with simultaneous and sequential cue presentations. Paper presented at the
Vision Sciences Society.
Black, A., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2004). Developmental Differences in Multiple Object Tracking. Paper
presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota.
Bullot, N. J., Droulez, J., Morvan, C., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2004). Keeping track of objects while exploring
a spatial layout with partial cues: Location-based and direction-based strategies. Paper presented at the
Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Fl.
Keane, B. P., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2004). Tracking behind occluders is not based on predicting likely
reappearance locations. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 362.
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May, 1999.
May, 1999
May, 1999
May 1999
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May, 2000
Annan, V., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2003). Voluntary Indexing requires serial visitation. Journal of Vision, 3(9),
737a.
Bullot, N. J., Droulez, J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2003). Keeping track of objects while exploring an
informationally impoverished environment: Local deictic versus global spatial strategies. Journal of Vision,
3(9), 323a.
Keane, B., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2003). Does tracking disappearing objects in MOT involve predicting the
locus of reappearance? [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 583a.
Kushnier, A., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2003). Do flashing objects grab visual indexes away in multiple object
tracking? [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 581a.
Leonard, C., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2003). Measuring the attentional demand of multiple object tracking
(MOT) [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 582a.
Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Leonard, C. (2003). Inhibition of Nontargets During Multiple-Object Tracking. Journal
of Vision, 3(9), 585a.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Tracking multiple identical moving objects: Analysis of recent findings. Journal of
Vision, 2(7), 249.
Pylyshyn, Z.P. (2003) Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.
Annan, V., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Can indexes be voluntarily assigned in Multiple Object Tracking?
[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 2(7), 243a.
Cohen, E. H., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Searching through subsets of moving items [Abstract]. Journal of
Vision, 2(7), 541a.
Dennis, J. L., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Effect of object discriminability on multiple object tracking.
Journal of Vision, 2(7), 241.
Leonard, C., Pylyshyn, Z. W., Dennis, J. L., & Cohen, E. H. (2002). The effect of a secondary monitoring
task on Multiple Object Tracking. Paper presented at the Vision Sciences 2002, Sarasota, FL.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Tracking multiple identical moving objects: Analysis of recent findings. Journal of
Vision, 2(7), 182a.
Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Holcombe, A. (2000). With two objects at one location, attention is "objectbased" (abstract). Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Research.
Tracking without keeping track. Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, New Orleans.
Blaser, E., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Measuring the independence of attention to multiple features.
Perception, 28, p56.
Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Domini, F. (1999). Measuring attention during 3D multielement tracking
[Abstract]. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40(4), 552a.
Imagined extrapolation of uniform motion is not continuous. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of
the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Blaser, E., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Measuring the independence of attention to multiple features. Annual
Conference of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Also abstract
appears in. Perception, 28, p56.
Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Domini, F. (1999). Measuring attention during 3D multielement tracking.
Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Also
abstract appears in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40(4), 552 (Abstract).
Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Cohen, J. Imagined extrapolation of uniform motion is not continuous. Paper presented
at the Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale.
Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman , J. Dynamic constraints on attentional objecthood: Evidence
from Multi-Element Tracking. Paper presented at the OPAM Conference (Object Perception and Memory),
Dallas, TX.
Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman , J. What is a visual object? Evidence from "target Merging" in
Multielement Tracking. Paper presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Annual Meeting, Ft Lauderdale, FL.
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Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Franconeri, S. When are featural and spatiotemporal properties encoded as
a result of attention allocation? Paper presented at the Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, Ft Lauderdale, FL. Abstract published as Investigative Ophthalmology
and Visual Science, 39(4), S872, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
(with Sears, C.) Paper Presentation, "Multiple Object Tracking and Visual Sensitivity", Annual Meeting of
the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Laval, Quebec.
(with Sears, C., & Schmidt, W.C.) Poster Presentation, "Automatic Shifts of Visual Attention in 2D and 3D
Space", Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Laval, Que.
(with Burkell, J.A., & Fisher, B.D.) Poster Presentation, Voluntary and Involuntary Attentional Effects in
Visual Processing", IRIS Research Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
(with Eagleson, R.) Poster Presentation, "Measurement of the 2D Affine Lie Group Parameters for Visual
Motion Analysis", ARVO, Sarasota, Florida. (Published in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual
Science (1992), Volume 33, #4, Item 2261, p. 1144).
(with Eagleson, R.) Talk, "The role of indexing and tracking in visual motion perception", Conference on
Spatial Vision in Humans and Robots, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
(with Eagleson, R.) Talk, "Measurement of visual motion for robotic tracking", IRIS/PRECARN meeting,
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Poster Presentation (with J.A. Burkell), "Colour Change: A Preattentive Feature?", 31st Annual Meeting of
The Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.
(with Wright, R.W.). "Effects of figural size on the perception of inside/outside spatial relations". Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec. Abstract
published in Canadian Psychology, 29 (2a), #859.
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Technical Advisory Committee, BC Advanced Systems Institute
Technical Advisory Committee , Precompetitive Research Network.
Consultant, Diffracto, Windsor, Ontario.
Consultant, Dynacon Enterprises Limited, Toronto, Ontario.
Consultant (site visit), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario.
Special Lecture, "Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind", Faculty of Part-time and Continuing
Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Consultation, Loblaw Companies Limited, Nepean, Ontario.
Consultation, Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Priorities for Organizational Research of the
Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
Consultation, Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Priorities for Organizational Research of the
Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre, Department of Communications, Laval, Quebec.
Consultation, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Products Corporation, Nepean, Ontario.
Consultation, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Transport Canada, Department of Transport,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Consultant, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California.
Consultant, MIT Press (Bradford Books).
Consultant, U.S. National Sciences Foundation, Computer Science and Engineering Research Study.
Consultant (site visit) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Rutgers University. On behalf of U.S. National
Institute of Mental Health.
Consultant, Alfred B. Sloan Foundation, New York, New York.