...the concept of enactive or embodied vision elaborated by Kevin ORegan and Alva Noë, visual experience is described as a temporally extended pattern of exploratory activity, a form of openness to the environment. Seeing is something we do, not something that happens in our brains and consists of temporally extended pattern of exploratory activity. In such an account, ones thorough knowledge of decorum, ones fluency in codes and in the constraints of usages within the real spatial conditions of artifacts would be to a great extent enabled by ones mastery of what Noë calls patterns of sensorimotor contingency. Similarly, ones proprioceptive awareness, that is, ones awareness of sensory information about the body itself, is indissolubly linked to perception. These patterns of sensorimotor contingency, underlaying perception-in-action (or perception-as-action) would then form a cognitive skeleton of habits and cultural competences; alternatively, the cognitive styles of given culture are substantially shaped by the deep reservoirs of real spatial experience and habits that are connected to the use of artifacts and symbolic systems. This would provide an additional reason why they cannot be mechanistically equated with linguistic or national categories such as Chinese, Mayan, African, or Western, but should be sought on a much more specific level. In Is Art History Global? James Elkins Ed.
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