What constitutes an efficient reference frame for vision?

What constitutes elemental shape information for biological vision?

We do not yet understand how the vertebrate visual system provides for recognition of ob- jects. Countless experiments have been performed to examine the contribution of cues such as color, texture, and shadowing, but the most important cues are the con- tours of the outer boundary. Most objects that we can name can be identified as a silhouette, or equally well as a line drawing of the boundar...

What Constitutes an Effective Representation?

This paper presents a taxonomy of 19 cognitive criteria for judging what constitutes effective representational systems, particularly for knowledge rich topics. Two classes of cognitive criteria are discussed. The first concerns access to concepts by reading and making inferences from external representations. The second class addresses the generation and manipulation of external representation...

What constitutes an episode in episodic memory?

The idea of episodic memory implies the existence of a process that segments experience into episodes so that they can be stored in memory. It is therefore surprising that the link between event segmentation and the organization of experiences into episodes in memory has not been addressed. We found that after participants read narratives containing temporal event boundaries at varying location...

Constructing a Body-Fixed Reference Frame for a Polyatomic Molecule

An attempt is made to show in a straightforward way how a body-fixed frame may be constructed in classical and hence in quantum mechanics for a polyatomic molecule with the aid of which the vibration-rotation behavior of the molecule may be described.

What Constitutes a Contract?