In the process of perception, the environmental data from our eyes first reaches the brain stem, where it is compared with the data from our other senses and pre-evaluated emotionally. The signals are processed further in the visual cortex and then transmitted in parallel to our memory areas via two main processing streams. From there they reach the motor and emotional control centers and become visible to us. The “where-stream” running to the declarative memory serves the perception of movement, action and position, while the “what-stream” running to the semantic memory enables us to identify things according to their meaning. This structuring of our descriptive knowledge is reflected in the semantic structure of meaning and the syntactic structure of action of word language.

Our socio-cultural environment has a much higher degree of pre-structuring than nature, as we have adapted it to our needs through the process of observation and design. Settlement areas, everyday objects, works of art and communication media have developed in a process of intergenerational understanding. They can therefore also communicate their purpose to us in a vivid way.

Publication “The formation of spatial-visual competence”

Der Beitrag Our language follows our perception erschien zuerst auf Farbpsychologie.