Supplemental Material for Seeing and Speaking: How Verbal “Description Length” Encodes Visual Complexity

Geometric Complexity - 1 Geometric Complexity and Minimum Description Length Principle

The question of how one should decide among competing explanations of data is at the heart of the scientific enterprise. Quantitative methods of selecting among models have been advanced over the years without an underlying theoretical framework to guide the enterprise and evaluate new developments. In this paper, we show that differential geometry provides a unified understanding of the model ...

How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?*

Perception provides a form of contact with the world and the other people in it. For example, we can learn that Franco is sitting in his chair by seeing Franco; we can learn that his hair is gray by seeing the colour of his hair. Such perception enables us to understand primitive forms of language, such as demonstrative expressions ‘this’ and ‘that’. These are expressions we can readily use to ...

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Contrasting visual working memory for verbal and non-verbal material with multivariate analysis of fMRI.

We performed a Delayed-Item-Recognition task to investigate the neural substrates of non-verbal visual working memory with event-related fMRI ('Shape task'). 25 young subjects (mean age: 24.0 years; STD=3.8 years) were instructed to study a list of either 1, 2 or 3 unnamable nonsense line drawings for 3s ('stimulus phase' or STIM). Subsequently, the screen went blank for 7s ('retention phase' o...