The Binding Problem Review

interpreting object motion; and cross-modal binding is Since its original formulation as a theoretical problem required to associate the sound of a ball striking a bat (von der Malsburg, 1981), “the binding problem” has with the visual percept of it, so that both are effortlessly captured the attention of researchers across many disciperceived as being aspects of a single event. I like to plines, including psychology, neuroscience, computarefer to these sorts of problems as perceptual binding tional modeling, and even philosophy. Despite the isproblems, since they involve unifying aspects of persue’s prominence in these fields, what “binding” means cepts. In addition, there are cognitive binding problems: is rarely made explicit. In this paper, I will briefly survey they include relating a concept to a percept, such as the many notions of binding and will introduce some linking the visual representation of an apple to all the issues that will be explored more fully in the reviews semantic knowledge stored about it (it is edible, how it that follow. tastes, used in pies, etc.); cross-modal identification,