Metáforas e iconos para transmitir información

Abstract

The article explores the links between icons and digital information, in their coexistence, their cooperation and their complementarities in knowledge acquisition process. In cognitive theories as well as in today’ s neurobiology and in metaphor analysis there is a unanimous opinion about the importance of icons in organising and implicating the access to information.

Keywords

• Mirror-neurones
• Icons
• Information
• Information era
• Metaphor
• Mapping theories