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Seeing, Thinking and Knowing

Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Arturo Carsetti

    1. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 38)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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” .

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

    Arturo Carsetti

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