On the Nature of Cognitive Representations and on the Cognitive Role of Manipulations. A Case Study: Surgery
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: The main point of discussion of the present article is the nature of representations, their formal structure and their origin and the cognitive role that manipulations of the environment can have.After having briefly reviewed the perspective expressed by the physical symbol system hypothesis, I take into account surgery as a case study that points out how many manipulative actions performed upon the environment have a cognitive relevance and the importance that the interaction with the environment can have in generating the representations used in cognitive processes and in giving them a formal structure.In the last part of the article I propose a model, that I call Double Representation Approach, which tries to give an explanation of the nature itself of representations, of the way they work in the cognitive processes and of certain important human cognitive behaviors.
Author: Alberto Gatti
Institution: University of Siena
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2586653443