Perceptual Experience and Seeing-as

Seeing mathematics: perceptual experience and brain activity in acquired synesthesia.

We studied the patient JP who has exceptional abilities to draw complex geometrical images by hand and a form of acquired synesthesia for mathematical formulas and objects, which he perceives as geometrical figures. JP sees all smooth curvatures as discrete lines, similarly regardless of scale. We carried out two preliminary investigations to establish the perceptual nature of synesthetic exper...

Anger as "seeing red": evidence for a perceptual association.

Metaphor representation theory contends that people conceptualise their non-perceptual states (e.g., emotion concepts) in perceptual terms. The present research extends this theory to colour manipulations and discrete emotional representations. Two experiments (N = 265) examined whether a red font colour would facilitate anger conceptions, consistent with metaphors referring to anger to "seeing...

Experience and Pictorial Representation: Wollheim’s Seeing-in and Merleau-Ponty’s Perceptual Phenomenolgy

Conscious Perceptual Experience as Representational Self-Prompting

John Dilworth Western Michigan University [Journal of Mind and Behavior 28 no. 2 (2007), 135-156] The self-prompting theory of consciousness holds that conscious perceptual experience occurs when non-routine perceptual data prompt the activation of a plan in an executive control system that monitors perceptual input. On the other hand, routine, non-conscious perception merely provides data abou...

Delta Design: Seeing/Seeing as

“....On ne trouvera point de Figures dans cet Ouvrage. Les methodes que j’y expose ne demandent ni constructions, ni raisonnements geometriques ou mechaniques, mais seulement des operations algebriques, assujetties a une marche reguliere et uniforme. Ceux qui aiment l’Analyse, verront avec plaisir la Mechanique en devenir une nouvelle branche, et me savront gre d’en avoir etendu ainsi le domain...