Section 4

Outline

I. Structure of knowledge in connectionist models

A. Common features of connectionist models

II. Categories of knowledge

A. Cognitive function is based on the categorization of knowledge

B. Perception consists in the classification of sensory items by the binding of features according to Gestalt grouping principles

C. Heterarchical categorization is necessary for concept formation and use

D. Hierarchy of action knowledge.

III. Cortical modularity

A. Horizontal organization

B. Vertical organization

C. Visual cortical hierarchy

D. Sensorimotor cortical hierarchy

IV. Cortical hierarchy of perceptual networks

A. The main transmodal areas

B. The hierarchy of perceptual knowledge corresponds to categories of progressively higher abstraction

C. Examples of lesion effects

V. Cortical hierarchy of executive networks

A. The frontal lobe action hierarchy

B. Functions of action hierarchy

VI. Heterarchical representation in association cortex