How does representation work?
We perceive representations in language, music and pictures by perceiving the sounds or objects that encode them. But how can perceiving one thing—a painting, for example—enable us to perceive another, e.g. the object depicted, and is there a common structure to our perception of visual and auditory representations?
In this project we draw upon recent philosophical and scientific research to evaluate the hypothesis that there is a common structure to the perception of speech, pictures and music. This affords an extraordinary opportunity to study linguistic, mimetic and musical representation together, and to develop a novel framework for understanding key issues about how representation works.
News and events
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Talk: Dimensions of Pictorial Content Mar. 18, 2024
PI Solveig Aasen presented a new paper entitled 'Dimensions of Pictorial Content' at the Higher Seminar in Aesthetics at Uppsala University on 13 March 2024.
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The Temporal Structure of Olfactory Experience (Wilson 2022) Feb. 16, 2023
Keith A. Wilson has published a chapter on ‘The Temporal Structure of Olfactory Experience’ in a new volume on Theoretical Perspectives on Smell.
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Smelling the Brain’s Creation (Aasen 2022) Dec. 1, 2022
‘Smelling the Brain’s Creation’ is the title of Solveig Aasen’s critical notice in Analysis about Ann-Sophie Barwich’s book Smellosophy.
The project ‘Perceiving Representations: A Study of Structural Commonalities between Language, Pictures and Music’ runs from 2018 to 2023 and is funded by The Research Council of Norway.