Thirty years of Marr's Vision: Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science

Chris Eliasmith; Tom Griffiths; Valerie Hardcastle; Bradley Love; William Bechtel; Richard Cooper; David Peebles

Thirty years of Marr's Vision: Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science

Chris Eliasmith, Tom Griffiths, Valerie Hardcastle, Bradley Love, William Bechtel, Richard Cooper, David Peebles

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Thirty years after Marr’s landmark posthumous book, Vision (Marr, 1982), the argument for which he is most cited remains the distinction between computational, algorithmic and representational, and the implementation levels. In the interim, many reformulations of this basic distinction have been proposed, but is it still relevant? This symposium will discuss whether there is still a place for the algorithmic and representational level, with its cognitive-level concepts, given the rise in reductionist neuroscience from below and Bayesian analysis from above.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012 (CogSci 2012)
Subtitle of host publication	Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World
Editors	Naomi Miyake, David Peebles, Richard P. Cooper
Publisher	Curran Associates, Inc
Pages	38-39
Number of pages	2
Volume	1 of 3
ISBN (Print)	9781622763047
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2012
Event	34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Sapporo, Japan Duration: 1 Aug 2012 → 4 Aug 2012 Conference number: 34 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cogsci12_proceedings.pdf https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/ https://escholarship.org/uc/cognitivesciencesociety/34/34

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Volume	34
ISSN (Print)	1069-7977

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Conference	34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Abbreviated title	CogSci2012
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Sapporo
Period	1/08/12 → 4/08/12
Internet address	https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cogsci12_proceedings.pdf https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/ https://escholarship.org/uc/cognitivesciencesociety/34/34

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Eliasmith, C., Griffiths, T., Hardcastle, V., Love, B., Bechtel, W., Cooper, R., & Peebles, D. (2012). Thirty years of Marr's Vision: Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012 (CogSci 2012): Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World (Vol. 1 of 3, pp. 38-39). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 34). Curran Associates, Inc. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4121j4q8

Eliasmith, Chris ; Griffiths, Tom ; Hardcastle, Valerie et al. / Thirty years of Marr's Vision : Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012 (CogSci 2012): Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World . editor / Naomi Miyake ; David Peebles ; Richard P. Cooper. Vol. 1 of 3 Curran Associates, Inc, 2012. pp. 38-39 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society).

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Eliasmith, C, Griffiths, T, Hardcastle, V, Love, B, Bechtel, W, Cooper, R & Peebles, D 2012, Thirty years of Marr's Vision: Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science. in N Miyake, D Peebles & RP Cooper (eds), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012 (CogSci 2012): Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World . vol. 1 of 3, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 34, Curran Associates, Inc, pp. 38-39, 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan, 1/08/12. <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4121j4q8>

Thirty years of Marr's Vision : Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science. / Eliasmith, Chris; Griffiths, Tom; Hardcastle, Valerie et al.

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012 (CogSci 2012): Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World . ed. / Naomi Miyake; David Peebles; Richard P. Cooper. Vol. 1 of 3 Curran Associates, Inc, 2012. p. 38-39 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 34).

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