Seeing, Thinking and Knowing: Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
PART I SEEING AND THINKING: A NEW APPROACH......Page 30
NEURAL MODELS OF SEEING AND THINKING......Page 32
FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE VISUAL CORTEX AND VARIATIONAL MODELS FOR KANIZSA’S MODAL SUBJECTIVE CONTOURS......Page 58
GESTALT THEORY AND COMPUTER VISION......Page 74
TOWARDS AN ANALYTIC PHENOMENOLOGY: THE CONCEPTS OF “BODILINESS” AND “GRABBINESS”......Page 106
INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SENSORY INPUT REFLECT THE MOTOR OUTPUT WITH WHICH ORGANISMS RESPOND TO THE INPUT......Page 118
MOVEMES FOR MODELING BIOLOGICAL MOTION PERCEPTION......Page 146
FORM CONSTRAINTS IN MOTION INTEGRATION, SEGMENTATION AND SELECTION......Page 174
SCINTILLATIONS, EXTINCTIONS AND OTHER NEW VISUAL EFFECTS......Page 194
COMMONALITIES BETWEEN VISUAL IMAGERY AND IMAGERY IN OTHER MODALITIES: AN INVESTIGATION BY MEANS OF FMRI......Page 206
PART II FORMS AND SCHEMES OF PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE SELF-ORGANISATION......Page 222
MICROGENESIS, IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE AND VISUAL PROCESSES IN READING......Page 224
LANGUAGE, SPACE AND THE THEORY OF SEMANTIC FORMS......Page 248
EMOTION-COGNITION INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE......Page 280
APPEARANCE OF STRUCTURE AND EMERGENCE OF MEANING IN THE VISUAL SYSTEM......Page 296
THE EMBODIED MEANING: SELF-ORGANISATION AND SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS IN VISUAL COGNITION......Page 310
NAME INDEX......Page 334
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D......Page 337
F......Page 338
H......Page 339
K......Page 340
M......Page 341
P......Page 342
S......Page 343
U......Page 344
Z......Page 345
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 346
B......Page 348
C......Page 349
E......Page 351
H......Page 352
K......Page 353
M......Page 354
O......Page 355
Q......Page 356
S......Page 357
T......Page 358
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