Brain damage – Farbpsychologie https://colour-psychology.com Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://colour-psychology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-logo-32x32.png Brain damage – Farbpsychologie https://colour-psychology.com 32 32 Constructing the meaning and significance of perception https://colour-psychology.com/2010/constructing-the-meaning-and-significance-of-perception/ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:14:26 +0000 https://axelbuether.de/2010/constructing-the-meaning-and-significance-of-perception/ “To see and to be seen is to exist.” The state of research in the neurosciences proves that the world we see every day is a construction of our consciousness. We and the environment only exist to the extent that we are consciously and unconsciously aware of them. We also have the certainty that something exists outside our consciousness. To form our imagination, we need a permanent source of events whose explanation requires the existence of a world outside our consciousness. If nothing happens after birth or we do nothing actively, then we effectively remain blind, as our memory cannot form a vivid image of the reality of our own lives. We see a phenomenal world of color and light whose structures do not refer to other content because we have not been able to form associative links in the brain.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of people who look back on their lives after a brain injury. They often only realize that something fundamental has changed when they see the consequences of their actions. People, places or objects are suddenly missing from their world, as if they had never existed in it before. If the associative connections of our nerve networks in the brain are destroyed, we lose parts of our knowledge structure. Things can disappear completely, as can their usage properties, behavioral states or action potentials. This also changes our spatial-visual competence, allowing us to recognize the functional structures of our brain’s processing. The association network determines our reality.

To the extent that we lose access to the “vocabulary” or “image treasure” of our memory, we experience difficulties in understanding and communicating. This shows that the memory reference of our visual space forms a language system whose structures of meaning and action result from the communication process with the environment.

Publication “The formation of spatial-visual competence”

]]> Perception of behavior, benefits and intentions to act https://colour-psychology.com/2010/perception-of-behavior-benefits-and-intentions-to-act/ Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:49:29 +0000 https://axelbuether.de/2010/perception-of-behavior-benefits-and-intentions-to-act/ For every action, we have to relate the positional spatiality of our body to the situational spatiality of the object. In this way, the physical space of a staircase clearly reflects our concept of movement. The memory reference of our visual space forms our matrix of thought and action, as all the actions we can imagine are represented in it. If we lose this information as a result of brain damage, we can no longer see what our body and the objects in our environment are used for and how they are used. They keep their name and lose their properties.

All voluntary body movements are controlled by the motor cortex of our brain. This also includes the eye muscles, which form an integral part of our muscle and joint system. Eye movements therefore also represent actions through which we anticipate future events. To coordinate our eye movements, we need specific action concepts that are stored as knowledge in our declarative memory. On the other hand, our gaze is guided along the contrast boundaries in the color and light structure of the environment. This results in the vivid formal language of all things that communicate their “instructions for use” to us, insofar as we can “read” them. We experience the formal language of nature as functional because we have adapted to it in the course of evolution. Visual design, on the other hand, is only functional to the extent that it informs us about the functional properties of things.

Our ability to see can be promoted indefinitely in almost all fields of activity. This is the reason for the difference between laypersons and experts. In this way, a coach can predict the course of the game, the architect the building and the doctor the success of the treatment. The development of spatial-visual competence includes the methodical promotion of our ability to anticipate possible courses of action and functional contexts. The resulting matrix of thought and action in the brain enables us to plan future events.

Publication “The formation of spatial-visual competence”

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