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Perceptual symbols: The power and limitations of a theory of dynamic imagery and structured frames

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

William F. Brewer
William F. Brewer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820 w-brewer@uiuc.edu www.psych.uiuc.edu/~brewer/
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Abstract

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The perceptual symbol approach to knowledge representation combines structured frames and dynamic imagery. The perceptual symbol approach provides a good account of the representation of scientific models, of some types of naive theories held by children and adults, and of certain reconstructive memory phenomena. The ontological status of perceptual symbols is unclear and this form of representation does not succeed in accounting for all forms of human knowledge.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 611 - 612
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press