Postscript: How We Learn Is How We SEE

How we see ourselves and how we see others.

People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in their own sensations, emotions, and cognitions at the same time that their experience of others is dominated by what can be observed externally. This basic asymmetry has broad consequences. It leads people to judge themselves and their own behavior differently from how they judge others and those others' behavior. ...

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It

How we see electronic games.

Theories regarding the influences of electronic games drive scientific study, popular debate, and public policy. The fractious interchanges among parents, pundits, and scholars hint at the rich phenomenological and psychological dynamics that underlie how people view digital technologies such as games. The current research applied Martin Heidegger's concept of interpretive frameworks (Heidegger...

How Do We See Color?

WHAT IS COLOR GOOD FOR? Although our distant ancestors probably first used color vision to find fruit in trees, it is still useful to us. Even though most of us will never have to defuse a bomb (Figure 1), colors are used to send all sorts of important messages in the modern world. Traffic lights turn from green to red to tell us to stop (Figure 2), warning lights turn orange on the car dashboa...

How we learn about things we don't already understand

The computation-as-cognitionmetaphor requires that all cognitive objects are constructed from a fixed set of basic primitives; prominent models of cognition and perception try to provide that fixed set. Despite this effort, however, there are no extant computational models that can actually generate complex concepts and processes from simple and generic basic sets, and there are good reasons to...