Recognition and the perception–cognition divide
Greyson Abid
Abstract
Recent discussions have fixated on the distinction between perception and cognition. How should recognition be understood in light of this distinction? The relevant sense of recognition involves a sensitivity to particulars from one's past. Recognizing the face of a familiar friend is one instance of this phenomenon, as is recognizing an object or place that one has viewed before. In this article, I argue that recognition is an interface capacity that straddles the border between perception and cognition.
Topics & Concepts
PerceptionPhenomenonCognitionCognitive sciencePsychologyCognitive psychologyFace (sociological concept)Facial recognition systemFace perceptionObject (grammar)EpistemologyComputer scienceSociologyArtificial intelligencePattern recognition (psychology)PhilosophySocial scienceNeuroscienceFace Recognition and PerceptionEmbodied and Extended CognitionNeural dynamics and brain function