PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Visual Cortex, Visual Thinking, Problem Solving
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Cognition: mental activity such as thinking or representing information. Two basic types of representations analogical & symbolic; both correspond to images and words. + form basis of human thought, intelligence, and the ability to solve everyday life"s complex problems. Analogical representations: a mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of an object; it is analogous to the object. + ie: maps which correspond to graphical layouts, family trees which depict relationships between relatives. Symbolic representation: an abstract mental representation that does not correspond to the physical features of an object or an idea ie: word violin stands for musical instrument not correspondences between what it looks or sounds like. Visual imagery associated with activity in visual perception-related areas of the brain (primary visual cortex) Mental image is not perfectly accurate; corresponds generally to the physical object it represents.
