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From these various
sources a new discipline called
Cognitive Psychology arose. The
idea here, as promulgated by
the Nobel Laureate Herbert
Simon among others, was to
seek to explain mental events
as analogous to the workings of
a digital computer that
manipulated formal symbolsΓÇöΓÇô
the representationsΓÇöΓÇôaccording
to certain rules and following
certain algorithms. David Marr
later developed a computational
theory of perception following
this kind of program, in which
the sequence of information
processing (computations)
progressed from simple
representations of the stimulus
input to perceptions, thought of
as the output. To the extent
that computations are similar
to inferences, this approach
has much in common with the
inference approach.
In my opinion, none of
the major theoretical
perspectives, at least in the
manner in which they have
been formulated, constitutes
an adequate, unified theory of
all the phenomena of
perception. An explanation
that would encompass all such
phenomena would have to do
justice to a wide variety of
perceptions and to the specific
facts now known about them.
Moreover, certain ideas
intrinsic to each of these
perspectives are already known
to be incorrect. Therefore,
before we can reach any
conclusion about the
correctness of a major
perspective, it is essential that
we explore in more detail the
various kinds of perception of
objects and events.