ArticlePerception2021
The Language of Vision.
Article in Perception, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Apical integration theory provides a neural basis for understanding disorganization and consciousness in the schizophrenias.Current research in neurobiology · 2026Article
- Cognitive maps as a medium for thought.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- The Cross-Linguistic Coordination of Overt Attention and Speech Production as Evidence for a Language of Vision.Cognitive science · 2026Article
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- Pouring, scooping, bouncing, rolling, twisting, and rotating: Does spontaneous categorical perception of dynamic event types reflect verbal encoding or visual processing?Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Sensitivity to Geometric Shape Regularity Emerges Independently of Vision.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Episodic recombination and the role of time in mental travel.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- A Phone in a Basket Looks Like a Knife in a Cup: Role-Filler Independence in Visual Processing.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- Using compositionality to understand parts in whole objects.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Review
- The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Visual Distortions and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia: An Update.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
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Abstract
The descriptions of surfaces, objects, and events computed by visual processes are not solely for consumption in the visual system but are meant to be passed on to other brain centers. Clearly, the description of the visual scene cannot be sent in its entirety, like a picture or movie, to other centers, as that would require that each of them have their own visual system to decode the description. Some very compressed, annotated, or labeled version must be constructed that can be passed on in a format that other centers-memory, language, planning-can understand. If this is a "visual language," what is its grammar? In a first pass, we see, among other things, differences in processing of visual "nouns," visual "verbs," and visual "prepositions." Then we look at recursion and errors of visual grammar. Finally, the possibility of a visual language also raises the question of the acquisition of its grammar from the visual environment and the chance that this acquisition process was borrowed and adapted for spoken language.
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