Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Thought

Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Thought

ISBN13: 9781466647039|ISBN10: 1466647035|EISBN13: 9781466647046
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch005
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Anna Ursyn. "Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Thought." Perceptions of Knowledge Visualization: Explaining Concepts through Meaningful Images, IGI Global, 2014, pp.131-173. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch005

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A. Ursyn (2014). Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Thought. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch005

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Anna Ursyn. "Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Thought." In Perceptions of Knowledge Visualization: Explaining Concepts through Meaningful Images. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch005

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Abstract

Cognitive thinking is discussed here in terms of processes involved in visual thought and visual problem solving. This chapter recapitulates basic information about human cognition, cognitive structures, and perceptual learning in relation to visual thought. It tells about some ideas in cognitive science, cognitive functions in specific parts of the brain, reviews ideas about thinking visually and verbally, critical versus creative thinking, components of creative performance, mental imagery, visual reasoning, and mental images. Imagery and memory, visual intelligence, visual intelligence tests, and multiple intelligences theory make further parts of the chapter. This is followed by some comments on cognitive development, higher order thinking skills, visual development of a child, the meaning of student art in the course of visual development, and the role of computer graphics in visual development.

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