Perception and Cognition

Roles: perceiver, observer, categorizer, intuition, analysis, attention, recognition, naming

The interplay between raw sensory perception and higher-order cognitive processing — seeing versus interpreting, noticing versus categorizing, attending versus analyzing. As a target domain, perception-and-cognition receives structure from embodied experience (seeing, grasping, touching) and from craft domains (the artist’s eye, the carpenter’s feel for grain). The domain foregrounds the tension between pre-conceptual awareness and conceptual understanding, and the ways that naming, labeling, and theorizing can both illuminate and distort what is perceived.

As Source Frame (1)

• Amara's Law

Applied To This Frame (4)

• household-management → Impressions Are Visitors at the Door
• visual-arts-practice → See First, Name Later
• fluid-dynamics → The Mind Is a Jar of Water
• visual-arts-practice → Without the Eye the Head Is Blind