Abstract:“Shapes of Cognition in Typographical Fictions” shows that the equation of cognition with computation in the early cognitive sciences affects the aesthetic treatment of thought in contemporary typographical fictions. When these fictions present thought as though it were a computational process, they affirm computationalism’s mind-body dualism. At the same time, “typographical fictions”—as the label implies—manipulate fonts, weight, and layout of letters to advance the narrative, visibly embracing the multimodal designing capacities of computers as writing interfaces. Given that visual features of the written language assume significance, these texts also explicitly engage the reader’s verbal-pictorial sensory perceptions, enriching the semantic field. Thus, in this article, I analyze the British author Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), a typographical novel frequently studied for its representation of autism, in order to delineate both the formal possibilities and the problematic implications that follow from contemporary typographical fictions’ reliance on computers as medium and analogue for thought representation.

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排版小说中的认知形态

摘要：《排印小说中的认知形态》表明，早期认知科学中的认知与计算的等式影响了当代排印小说对思想的审美处理。当这些虚构将思想呈现为一个计算过程时，它们肯定了计算主义的身心二元论。与此同时，“印刷小说”——正如标签所暗示的那样——操纵字体、粗细和字母布局来推进叙事，明显地将计算机的多模态设计能力作为书写界面。鉴于书面语言的视觉特征具有重要意义，这些文本也明确地吸引了读者的语言-图像感官知觉，丰富了语义领域。因此，在本文中，