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The case for mental imagery
"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 Men...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The case for mental imagery / Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
, 2006 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VI-248 p., [4] p. de pl.) |
| Collection : | Oxford psychology series ; 39 |
| Contenu : | Mental imagery and mental representation. Evaluating propositional accounts. Evaluating experiment artifact accounts. Depictive representations in the brain. Visual mental images in the brain : overview of a theory. Science and mental imagery |
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| Résumé : | "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 and 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." -- BOOK JACKET |
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| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Bibliogr. p. 213-235. Index |
| ISBN : | 0-19-517908-0 978-0-19-517908-8 |