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Pictures, propositions, and primitives in the head

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Anjan Chatterjee
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 anjan@mail.med.upenn.edu http://ccn.upenn.edu/people/anjan.html

Abstract

Data from neuropsychology do not support the idea that the primary visual cortex necessarily displays internal visual images. However, the choice of formats used in human cognition is not restricted to depictive or descriptive representations. Nestled between pictures and propositions, primitive spatial schemas with simple analog features extracted from pictorial scenes may play a subtle but wide role in cognition.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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