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          Zenon Pylyshyn

          Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher

          Zenon Walter PylyshynFRSC (; 25 August 1937 – 6 December 2022) was a Canadiancognitive scientist and philosopher.

          Zenon Pylyshyn (born ) is a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher.

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        3. Things and places: how the mind connects with the world / by Zenon W. Pylyshyn.
        4. Zenon Pylyshyn is on firm ground in attacking the notion of there being a picture in the brain for visual mental imagery.

          5. He was a Canada Council Senior Fellow from 1963 to 1964.

          Pylyshyn's research generally involved the theoretical analysis of the nature of the human cognitive systems behind perception, imagination, and reasoning. He developed visual indexing theory (sometimes called the FINST theory) which hypothesizes a pre-conceptual mechanism responsible for individuating, tracking, and directly (or demonstratively) referring to the visual objects that could be interrogated by cognitive processes.

          His very influential multiple object tracking experiment methodology emerged from this work.

          Early life and education

          Pylyshyn was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Ukrainian immigrants Anna and Yuriy.[3] He obtained a degree in EngineeringPhysics (BEng 1959) from McGill University and in control systems (M