ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses rationale for the relationship of the physical brain to its information-processing capabilities. It suggests that the brain symbolizes information using three types of codes, imagistic, abstract, and linguistic; and a summary is made of the relationships among them. Information processing approaches now dominate the study of human cognition and influence many other human sciences. The study of human perception and cognition is the study of the “memory,” “operator,” and “control” functions by which humans process, construct, and use information. The mainstream of work on human memory and cognition has produced ideas that seem to mesh with something like a resonant, reconstructive holographic model. The chapter argues that the brain uses multiple types of codes to construct three different types of information organizations that function as cognitive units. Remembering nonsense syllables requires people to rely solely on imagistic properties of the symbols and their organization.
