| Between the neuronal level - the wetwear that you can touch or at least look at under microscopes - and the cultural level - the notion that there are different cultures with histories and practices and so on - there is a third level of analysis. We call this intermediate level the representational level. This level cannot be touched or seen but it is believed to exist in the head. It entails the notion that we have and use schemata, scripts, ideas, symbol systems and other cognate kinds of mental entitites. If you are a cognitivist, you believe it is legitimate to study the representational level. | |||
| p. 81 | |||
| Howard E. Gardner |
"Cognition: A Western Perspective" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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| Gardner is describing the major beliefs of cognitive scientists up to 1980. | |||
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