Is our perceptual - cognitive cerebral system naturally prone to give a meaning to our interior and exterior perceptions?

11 November 2018 1 4K Report

This is rather a evidence ( do you agree? ) but I would like to have some opiniono and bibliography about this statement. Thanks.

Giovanni Portuesi

Maybe visual salience could be related to this problem. Salient features could be the features where you more easily begin the process of giving a meaning to the visual input.

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