Abstract
This paper discusses the spatial and visual constraints of the prison as a military space. In an original design, we examine mental processes involved in images of the prison in general and of the Jilava prison as a concrete space. The qualitative approach develops an innovative methodology as scientific studies on brain are focused on the quantitative paradigm. The paper aims to examine the prison-in general-in terms of spatial cognition and to analyze the images of Jilava described by the students from the vantage point of quantitative metrics. A metaphoric description of the Romanian Jilava prison according to Ana Blandiana becomes the stimulus for the research based on interviews. Approximately, 130 students from the University of Bucharest were asked questions about the prison. The data collected were processed in terms of current neurosciences. The findings demonstrate that the results of content analysis of narratives are similar with quantitative investigations: the semantic network of judging images is involved in the visual and spatial representation of an object. To conclude, the results do not contradict the previous inferences concerning the paradox of the brain functioning (analogue and propositional code); spatial cognition is interrelated with social and moral cognition of the prison as a military space; images of Jilava confirm the role of implicit memory in visual and spatial representation.
Highlights
From the whole research we chose to examine two hypotheses: 1) Spatial cognition is related to the social cognition of space
2) The images of military space depend on implicit memory
The conversion of these hypotheses into research questions appears as follows: -Is spatial cognition of the prison separate from the social and moral cognition of space? -Can images-as a result of processing metaphorical brain-be measured by quantitative metrics? This paper aims: to analyze the inter-linkage between social cognition and cognition of space and to examine the narrative images of the prison in terms of military space corresponding to implicit memory
Summary
Literature in the field can be considered as a system of hypotheses and methods sometimes opposite about the problem statement In this case, the assumptions and the questions research that emerge from the academic literature do not constitute the condition sine qua non for anticipating the effects of our design of the research. We consider the information and the materials from the fieldwork as possible models about the cognitive architecture of the brain. In these circumstances, the complexity of the approach is very high and the theoretical guidelines of the investigation are based on some usual rules that scientists accept as academic conventions
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