- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (23 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195179080
- ISBN-13: 978-0195179088
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
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"This volume is the most important if not the final word on the great imagery debate. It examines issues critical to all cognition. For example, whether the brain is a general purpose computer and if the brain's structure imposes limits on what can be represented in our minds." Michael I. Posner, Prof. Emeritus University of Oregon
"The Case for Mental Imagery is destined to be a classic text in psychology. [the authors] present an in-depth, philosophically sophisticated, and empirically supported argument that clarifies and settles many of the most contentious issues in the longstanding, decades-long 'imagery debate'...This is an impressive achievement and an outstanding example of the way controversies can be addressed through a combination of sophisticated theoretical concepts paired with expertly conducted scientific research programs."--PsycCRITIQUES
"This is an outstanding book that presents a roadmap of the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying mental im
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Mental imagery has always been a controversial topic in psychology. The major problem has been the inherently private nature of mental images, which has traditionally prevented objective assessment of their structure and function. Between researchers in cognitive psychology and computer-science, a debate, now commonly called 'the imagery debate' arose about what exactly constitutes a mental image. Although the imagery researchers in cognitive psychology assumed that mental images were in fact images, and hence often compared them to pictures, the computer-science researchers relied on language-like internal representations that are easy to implement in programming languages. On the side of the computer-science researchers, Zenon Pylyshyn has argued that the picture metaphor underlying theoretical discussions of visual mental imagery is seriously misleading, particularly because it suggests that an image is an entity to be perceived. Pylyshyn has claimed that to describe what we know adequately, we must posit mental structures that describe, that are conceptual and propositional in nature, rather than sensory or pictorial-symbolic descriptions, rather than images. On the side of the mental-imagery researchers, Stephen Kosslyn has argued that the idea that mental depict, as opposed to describe, is not only defensible, but most consistent with the emerging body of data about imagery. In this volume, Stephen Kosslyn revisits the debate some 30 years later, when it has evolved to bear on a much more general concern: the relation between mental phenomena and underlying natural substrates. Kosslyn summarises the arguments and positions, puts them in context, and shows how modern neuroscientific methods can illustrate the representational nature of mental imagery.
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"The Case for Mental Imagery" offers an in depth scholarly codex for comprehending the art and science of mental representation. Although part of the Oxford Psychology Series, it's coupled with neuroscience and a rich array of case studies. In fact, I gladly found this book grounded in scientific research in comparison to other resources on the topic.
As a PhD student of Psychology with interests in imagery, thematic apperception, visualization, intuition, and the art of projection, I found this text to be highly informative. Topics covered include "behind the scenes" exploration of sensory systems, brain picturing or representations, associative memory, perception, visualization, neuroimaging; critique of topics, and much more.
As a PhD student of Psychology with interests in imagery, thematic apperception, visualization, intuition, and the art of projection, I found this text to be highly informative. Topics covered include "behind the scenes" exploration of sensory systems, brain picturing or representations, associative memory, perception, visualization, neuroimaging; critique of topics, and much more.
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