Metonymy | Unassigned Long seat Bench pair |
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single characteristic used to identify a more complex model informs cognitive processing. Objects that repetitively appear in a specific context become known as symbols for the whole concept. This notion relates to the Gestalt effect where visual recognition of whole forms is inferred from an incomplete collection of simple lines and curves. Conscious experience entails all physical and mental aspects of the perceived environment simultaneously as an organization of dynamic interaction.
“The neural functions and processes with which the perceptual facts are associated in each case are located in a continuous medium; and that the events in one part of this medium influence the events in other regions in a way that depends directly on the properties of both in their relation to each other.” - Wolfgang Köhler
