e Link between Mental Representation and Diagram
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Diagrams are uniquely powerful tools of communication. Diagrams or pictures are the oldest medium of human communication. ey are used for representation as well as for certain types of reasoning. Representation is contained in our thought. ought has evolved through ages. It is generally believed that thought functions through language. However, there is no natural language in the brain but just the activities of the neurons. Nevertheless language provides a compelling analogy for thought. Another way of characterizing thought is by considering all kinds of ideas and relations among them. e internal linguistic and imagistic reasoning are not the same as their external manifestation. External manifestations of imagistic thought include maps, charts, diagrams and even gestures (Tverski, 2005). Cave painting, petroglyphs, weaving, wood and stone curving, and stelae bear are witness to various roles of representation that serve humanity in under religious, historical, political, expressive, informative, artistic, playful, creative or inferential context No one can deny the in uence of pictorial mode of information in the eld of advertisement covering a vast eld from food item to secured livelihood. is powerful media can address the entire population irrespective of any sophistication. Chandrasekharan et al [1995] draw an important distinction between two types of representation, internal representation and external diagrammatic representation. External diagrammatic representations are constructed by the agent in amedium in the external world (paper etc.). Internal diagrams or images comprise the internal representations that are posited to have some pictorial properties.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008