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The Case for Mental Imagery
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Preface Chapter 1. Mental imagery and mental representation Chapter 2. Evaluating propositional accounts Chapter 3. Evaluating experiment artifact accounts Chapter 4. Depictive representations in the brain Chapter 5. Visual mental images in the brain: Overview of a theory Chapter 6. Science and mental imager Appendix: Review of neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery References
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“This degree of memory for briefly presented stimuli clearly cannot depend on the very limited capacity offered by short-term memory stores, and implies that either a visual buffer (Kosslyn, et al., 2006) or sensory memory provide an alternative access route to long-term visual memory.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kosslyn, S. M., Thompson, W. L., & Ganis, G.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2006-03-23
- OpenAlex
- W1792883256
- Cited by
- 909
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 23.59
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Keywords
- mental imagery, mental representation
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