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Xinchi Yu

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Linguistics
Member, Maryland Language Science Center

Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

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Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics

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The Binding Problem 2.0: Beyond Perceptual Features

On the problem of binding to object indices, beyond perceptual features.

Linguistics

Contributor(s): Ellen Lau, Xinchi Yu
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The “binding problem” has been a central question in vision science for some 30 years: When encoding multiple objects or maintaining them in working memory, how are we able to represent the correspondence between a specific feature and its corresponding object correctly? In this letter we argue that the boundaries of this research program in fact extend far beyond vision, and we call for coordinated pursuit across the broader cognitive science community of this central question for cognition, which we dub “Binding Problem 2.0”.

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