Confusion Isn't Everything

Repertoire isn't everything for GVHD.

The Anthropomorphized Product Shelf: Symmetric Multimodal Human-Environment Interaction

" The environment is everything that isn't me. " Albert Einstein

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing".

In determining the correct – optimal – parse of an input, as the constraint hierarchy is descended, each constraint acts to disqualify competitors with absolute independence from all other constraints. A parse found wanting on one constraint has absolutely no hope of redeeming itself by faring well on any or all lower-ranking constraints.

Appearance Isn't Everything: News on Object Representation in Cortex

How objects are represented in the visual system is one of the big questions in cognitive neuroscience. In this issue of Neuron, Mahon and colleagues present an intriguing study that suggests that properties of objects other than shape can influence the arrangement of object selectivities in visual areas. In the process, the study also points to important caveats regarding the ability of standa...

Spraying color Hilbert 1

What is color? Of course, examples of colorful objects are not hard to come by (Fig. 1 provides numerous examples), so the question itself is slightly puzzling, suggesting that some confusion needs to be cleared up or ignorance enlightened. But how could anyone (who isn't blind or totally lacking in color vision) possibly be confused about what color is? After all, if we learn anything about th...