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The Case for Mental Imagery (Hardcover)
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The Case for Mental Imagery (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Psychology Series, 40
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When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do
we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental
image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists
have debated whether mental images play a functional role in
cognition. In The Case for Mental Imagery, Stephen Kosslyn, William
Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis present a complete and unified argument
that mental images do depict information, and that these depictions
do play a functional role in human cognition. They outline a
specific theory of how depictive representations are used in
information processing, and show how these representations arise
from neural processes. To support this theory, they seamlessly
weave together conceptual analyses and the many varied empirical
findings from cognitive psychology and neuroscience. In doing so,
they present the conceptual grounds for positing this type of
internal representation and summarize and refute arguments to the
contrary. Their argument also serves as a historical review of the
imagery debate from its earliest inception to its most recent
phases, and provides ample evidence that significant progress has
been made in our understanding of mental imagery. In illustrating
how scientists think about one of the most difficult problems in
psychology and neuroscience, this book goes beyond the debate to
explore the nature of cognition and to draw out implications for
the study of consciousness. Student and professional researchers in
vision science, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience
will find The Case for Mental Imagery to be an invaluable resource
for understanding not only the imagery debate, but also and more
broadly, thenature of thought, and how theory and research shape
the evolution of scientific debates.
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