?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Connecting+Visual+and+Verbal+Space%3A+Preliminary+Considerations+Concerning+the+Concept+'Mental+Image'&rft.creator=Schirra%2C+Dr.+Joerg+R.J.&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=AI+research+concerning+the+connection+between+seeing+and+speaking+mainly+employs+what+is+called+reference+semantics.+Within+this+framework%2C+the+notion+of+%60mental+image'+is+often+used+while+explaining+how+somebody+not+situated+in+the+same+perceptual+context+is+able+to+anchor+his+understanding+of+an+utterance+describing+the+scene+visually+perceived+by+the+speaker.+We+give+a+foundation+for+considering+mental+images+as+propositions+with+respect+to+a+certain+field+of+concepts%3A+these+fields+have+to+provide+a+syntactically+dense+set+of+concepts+distinguishing+locations.+The+use+of+such+propositions+in+the+reference+semantic+explanations+of+understanding+utterances+about+visually+perceived+scenes+is+motivated+by+applying+Kant's+idea+of+the+introduction+of+new+types+of+objects%3A+we+conceive+spatial+relations+as+relations+only+applicable+to+sortal+objects%2C+i.e.%2C+individuated+objects+which+are+synthetically+introduced+on+a+syntactically+dense+field+providing+their+potential+locations.+The+concept+%60mental+image'+which+results+from+these+preliminary+studies+is+applied+to+two+current+projects+in+AI%2C+one+dealing+with+the+semantics+of+particular+spatial+prepositions%2C+and+the+other+more+generally+concerned+with+the+logic+of+the+connection+between+visual+and+verbal+space.&rft.publisher=IRIT+Toulouse&rft.contributor=Aurnague%2C+M.&rft.contributor=Borillo%2C+A.&rft.contributor=Borillo%2C+M.&rft.contributor=Bras%2C+M.&rft.date=1993&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5373%2F1%2Ftoulouse.pdf&rft.identifier=++Schirra%2C+Dr.+Joerg+R.J.++(1993)+Connecting+Visual+and+Verbal+Space%3A+Preliminary+Considerations+Concerning+the+Concept+'Mental+Image'.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5373%2F