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Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher

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

He was a Canada Council Senior Fellow from to

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 ) from McGill University and in control systems (MSc ) and experimental ps