# Image-Native Cognition **Entity class:** Cognitive-architecture concept **Domain:** Cognition / Artificial intelligence **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Image-native cognition treats visual and spatial representations as primary structures of thought rather than as material translated from language. ## Mechanism and significance In AI research, it motivates models that reason within perceptual representations instead of converting every intermediate state into text. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Thought Cloud Cognition]] · [[Text-Free Neural Model]] · [[Biological Learning Algorithm]] · [[C. elegans Whole-Brain Simulation]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.