Explaining the obvious : a theory of visual images as cognitive structures

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Original languageEnglish
PublisherKungliga Humanistiska vetenskapssamfundet i Lund
Number of pages96
Volume2007/2008:1
ISBN (Print)978-91-976860-2-0
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Publication series

NameScripta Minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis
Volume2007/2008:1
ISSN (Print)0439-8912

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Art History

Free keywords

  • Pictures as structures of meaning
  • Images – cognitive structures
  • Images in mind
  • Images – structures of meaning
  • Language depends of meaning from visual thinking
  • Seeing is no act of symbolism
  • Linguistic structure developed later than visual thinking
  • Language in images subjected to spatial order
  • Signs and symbols in images subjected to spatial order
  • Images = visual images
  • Images (pictures) – first of all Visual images
  • Visual image – spatial structure of meaning
  • Visual meaning – excludes no ort of meaning
  • Seeing – meaning from the immediate present
  • Seeing – simultaneous awareness
  • Seeing = regarding
  • Regarding – more than perception
  • Regarding as thinking
  • Seeing as cognition
  • Seeing as thinking
  • Intuition
  • Visual image and cognition
  • Visual images as mental work
  • Visual thinking
  • Spatial for-mation of meaning
  • Multidimensional thinking
  • Critical reason in visual cognition
  • Cognitive seeing
  • Cognition and visual images
  • Thinking in seeing
  • Visual meaning versus verbal mean-ing
  • Visual meaning = multidimensional meaning
  • Visual meaning is meaning in simultaneity
  • Visual image an universal cognitive structure
  • Visual meaning and verbal meaning – different and complementary
  • Visual images – nothing linguistic
  • Visual meaning – meaning independ-ent of symbolism
  • Signs – no constituents of visual meaning
  • Symbolism – no constituent of visual meaning
  • Pictures in mind
  • Pictures
  • see Visual images
  • Maps are visual images
  • Diagrams are visual meaning

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