Schemata are part of the nervous system. Perception of meaning also depends on schematic control of information pickup. Perception is not about classifying objects in categories. A cognitive map contains schemata of the objects in the environment and spatial relations between the objects. Even mental imagery is reduced to perceptual anticipations for picking up useful information.
Images are plans for obtaining information.
A collection of historical papers on psychological research about memory. Included are Freud, Luria, Stern, Bateson, etc. Remembering is a skill that must be learned. Thus, the remembering self must have a development of its own. Jerome Bruner believes in a multiplicity of narratives.