Volpe, R. 1 & Esposito, A. 2
1 University of Perpignan
2 Second University of Naples
We consider the notion of groundlessness as related to the process of meaning structure, which depends on linguistic and non-linguistic information. Bringing awareness to the fact that experience of reality is tied to the cognitive system’s experience of the world allows to posit the role mental representations play within such process. Our study on the role mental representations play on the understanding of written sentences describing visual ones, measures both the length of time participants took to decide whether or not the written sentence described the visual one, and the number of errors occurred during this decision making process. We found that more errors occurred when the written text describing the visual sentence was implausible, and length of time was shorter when both the visual and the written sentence were plausible. We discuss our results under the perspective of Vygotsky’s non-classical psychology implying a philosophical understanding of holography.