Perceiving Representations
The ‘Perceiving Representations’ project will conduct a unified examination of our perception of three different forms of representation: language, pictures and music.
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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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Oslo Mind Group Seminar (Online)
Oct. 23, 2020 1:15 PM
We will be discussing a draft of ‘Is Consciousness Continuous?’ by Andrew Yuan Lee.
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Depicting Movement (Aasen 2020)
Feb. 25, 2020 8:05 PM
Solveig Aasen, Principal Investigator of the ‘Perceiving Representations’ project, has published a paper on ‘Depicting Movement’ in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
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Refined Audition Conference
Feb. 10, 2020 1:13 PM
The Refined Audition: Music and Speech conference brought together philosophers and scientists to examine the similarities and differences between these two forms of auditory perception.
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Oslo Science Fair 2019
Nov. 6, 2019 3:15 PM
Perceiving Representations participated in the University’s annual science festival, Forskningstorget i Oslo, alongside the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS).
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The project ‘Perceiving Representations: A Study of Structural Commonalities between Language, Pictures and Music’ runs from 2018 to 2022 and is funded by The Research Council of Norway.
Publications
- Solveig Aasen (2020). Depicting Movement. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 0004-8402.
- Solveig Aasen (2020). Crossmodal Aesthetics: How Dance and Music Can Match. The Philosophical Quarterly. ISSN 0031-8094.