Seeing, Thinking and Knowing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-5

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Arturo Carsetti

      Pages 7-26

3. Seeing and Thinking: A New Approach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Neural Models of Seeing and Thinking

      • Stephen Grossberg

      Pages 29-54

   3. Functional Architecture of the Visual Cortex and Variational Models for Kanizsa’s Modal Subjective Contours

      • Jean Petitot

      Pages 55-69

   4. Gestalt Theory and Computer Vision

      • Agnè Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, Jean-Michel Morel

      Pages 71-101

   5. Towards an Analytic Phenomenology: The Concepts of “Bodiliness” and “Grabbiness”

      • J. Kevin O’Regan, Erik Myin, Alva Noë

      Pages 103-114

   6. Internal Representations of Sensory Input Reflect the Motor Output with Which Organisms Respond to the Input

      • Andrea Di Ferdinando, Domenico Parisi

      Pages 115-141

   7. Movemes for Modeling Biological Motion Perception

      • Luis Goncalves, Enrico Di Bernardo, Pietro Perona

      Pages 143-170

   8. Form Constraints in Motion Integration, Segmentation and Selection

      • Jean Lorenceau

      Pages 171-189

   9. Scintillations, Extinctions, and Other New Visual Effects

      • Jacques Ninio

      Pages 191-201

   10. Commonalities between Visual Imagery and Imagery in Other Modalities; an Investigation by Means of fMRI

       • Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Rosalia di Matteo, Cosimo Del Gratta, Andrea De Nicola, Antonio Ferretti, Gian Luca Romani

       Pages 203-218

4. Forms and Schemes of Perceptual and Cognitive Self-Organisation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Microgenesis, Immediate Experience and Visual Processes in Reading

      • Victor Rosenthal

      Pages 221-243

   3. Language, Space and the Theory of Semantic Forms

      • Yves-Marie Visetti

      Pages 245-275

   4. Emotion-Cognition Interaction and Language

      • Manfred Wimmer

      Pages 277-292

   5. Appearance of Structure and Emergence of Meaning in the Visual System

      • Michael Stadler, Peter Kruse

      Pages 293-306

   6. The Embodied Meaning: Self-Organisation and Symbolic Dynamics in Visual Cognition

      • Arturo Carsetti

      Pages 307-330

5. Back Matter

   Pages 331-358

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According to Putnam to talk of “facts” without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; “object” itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words “we find that we can speak of ‘objects’that were not ‘values of any variable’in 1 any language we previously spoke” . The notion of object becomes, then, like the notion of reference, a sort of open land, an unknown territory. The exploration of this land - pears to be constrained by use and invention. But, we may wonder, is it possible to guide invention and control use? In what way, in particular, is it possible, at the level of na- ral language, to link together program expressions and natural evolution? To give an answer to these onerous questions we should immediately point out that cognition (as well as natural language) has to be considered first of all as a peculiar fu- tion of active biosystems and that it results from complex interactions between the - ganism and its surroundings. “In the moment anorganism perceives an object of wh- ever kind, it immediately begins to ‘interpret’this object in order to react properly to it . . . It is not necessary for the monkey to perceive the tree in itself. . . What counts is sur- 2 vival” .

• Action
• Thought
• cognition
• computer vision
• emotion
• knowledge
• language
• modeling
• perception

• University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

  Arturo Carsetti

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