The Art of Cognition

Cognitive Perspective = How we think about art Memory = The material of culture Individual Culture = Implies a collective dimension Human Culture = Emerges when memory and perception do not entirely coincide

We cannot experience reality without our memories = Memory Culture can be an instrument for change = Human Culture Culture encompasses a set of values, beliefs, and behavior = Sayre’s definition of culture Humans live in time (actuality) = Culture

The things that we remember, our schemes do not much reality = Memory Culture has to do to the ways in which people deal with this difference = Human Culture Culture is based on the difference between what we have previously experienced and what actually is being perceived at the moment = Culture We are going to study art as a structure and understand it from a cognitive perspective = Cognitive Perspective

<p>Concrete memories = Connected to a particular moment in time, like memories for a situation, for a place, for a person Abstract memories = Not connected to a particular moment in time, like language, mathematics Episodic memories = Memories about our own life Collective memories = Memories shared by society, like history</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perception of similarities = Has to do with the body and the senses, understanding something based on past experiences Imagination of possibilities = Has to do with artefacts, creating something to solve discrepancy between memory and actuality Conceptualization of meaning = Has to do with language, imposing order in the world Analysis of structures = Using graphic symbols to analyze the structure of reality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mimetic cultures = Artefacts Mythical cultures = Language Graphic (theoretical) cultures = Graphics Cultures of writing-city states = Writing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>700 BCE = Greek Antiquity 300 BCE = Roman Antiquity 300-1300 = Middle Ages 1400-present = Modern Times</p> Signup and view all the answers