Zenon Walter Pylyshyn was a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher.
11 Facts About Zenon Pylyshyn
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Zenon Pylyshyn was a Canada Council Senior Fellow from 1963 to 1964.
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Zenon Pylyshyn developed visual indexing theory which hypothesizes a pre-conceptual mechanism responsible for individuating, tracking, and directly referring to the visual objects that could be interrogated by cognitive processes.
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Zenon Pylyshyn was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Ukrainian immigrants Anna and Yuriy.
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Zenon Pylyshyn obtained a degree in Engineering Physics from McGill University and in control systems and experimental psychology, both from the Regina Campus, University of Saskatchewan.
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Zenon Pylyshyn's dissertation was on the application of information theory to studies of human short-term memory.
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Zenon Pylyshyn was a Canada Council Senior Fellow from 1963 to 1964.
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Zenon Pylyshyn was then professor of Psychology and Computer Science, at the University of Western Ontario in London, from 1964 until 1994, where he held honorary positions in Philosophy and Electrical Engineering and was director of the UWO Center for Cognitive Science.
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Zenon Pylyshyn died, on 6 December 2022, at Calvary Hospital in New York City.
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Zenon Pylyshyn was invited to give the Jean Nicod lectures in Paris in 2004.
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Zenon Pylyshyn has presided over both the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Cognitive Science Society.