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Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

Kosslyn, Stephen M.·1994·The MIT Press eBooks
DOI 10.7551/mitpress/3653.001.0001
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This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery.Kosslyn reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past.Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, Kosslyn uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques.A Bradford Book

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Authors
Kosslyn, S. M.
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Kosslyn, Stephen M.
ORCID
Kosslyn, Stephen M.
Venue
The MIT Press eBooks
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
1994
DOI
10.7551/mitpress/3653.001.0001
OpenAlex
W2775371498
Cited by
1,977
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Citations by year
2026: 39 · 2025: 55 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 48 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 50 · 2013: 69 · 2012: 75
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18.67
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
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The MIT Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Keywords
mental imagery, visual imagery, high-level vision, visual perception, internal representations, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, computer vision

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