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This work presents a formalized description of information and communicative interactions of individuals on the basis of the communicative field (CF) method. It also contains explication of the possibility to create model of information and communication interactions, which is able to illustrate both interactions between two and more individuals. Methods and approaches which are suggested in this paper can correctly simulate the processes of distortion and generation of information images (IIs) with information and communication social interaction. Expansion and addition of IIs theory in terms of the transmission of information between individuals allows us to speak about the space of IIs. This space helps to explain a number of characteristic phenomena of human thinking.

This work represents a formalized description of information and communicative interactions of individuals on the basis of theory of information images (II). It also demonstrates how important it is to choose the models type adequate to the systems under research. It also introduces an explication of the possibility to create the model of information and communication interactions that can illustrate transmission of information between two and more individuals. Methods and approaches suggested in this paper allow us to compare different levels of the described processes depending on the chosen architecture of the model; the methods and approaches mentioned in the current work can be also used to simulate the processes of distortion and generation of information images while information and communication social interaction. Expansion and addition of information images theory in terms of transmission of information among individuals enables us to speak about the space of individual II. The existence of such a space and creation of correct formalized model help us to explain a number of characteristic phenomena of human thinking processes. As a result of this research, the authors introduce an equation that describes the spatial and structural evolution of individual II. There is also an example of modeling on the basis of this theory taking into account the results of the experiment (bilingual Stroop test).

The paper presents the basic principles of the information image theory and a mathematical model developed using it. The hierarchy of information images in an individual mind, which determines his∖her real and virtual activity, is considered. Algorithms for describing transfer and distortion of information images by individuals in the communication process are constructed.

To corroborate the theory experimentally, the bilingual Stroop test is used. The results of the test are interpreted using the introduced theory, and are then compared with the results of computer modeling based on the theory. It is shown that information images can be used not only to explain a number of cognitive processes of the human mind, but also to predict their dynamics in a number of particular cases.