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020			_a9780195179088
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100	1		_aKosslyn, Stephen Michael, _d1948- _eauthor. _9229536
245	1	4	_aThe case for mental imagery / _cStephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2006]
264		4	_c©2006
300			_avi, 248 pages : _billustrations (some colour) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford psychology series ; _v39
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-235) and index.
505	0		_aMental images and mental representations -- Evaluating propositional accounts -- Evaluating experimental artifact accounts -- Depictive representations in the brain -- Visual mental images in the brain : overview of a theory -- Science and mental imagery.
520			_a"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 forMental 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 ininformation 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 forpositing 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 ourunderstanding 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 professionalresearchers 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, the nature of thought, and how theory and research shape the evolution ofscientific debates."--Publisher description.
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650		0	_aImagery (Psychology) _9319113
650		0	_aVisual perception. _9325612
650		0	_aBrain _xPhysiology. _9770372
700	1		_aThompson, William L. _q(William Ladd), _d1965- _eauthor. _9505832
700	1		_aGanis, Giorgio, _eauthor. _91071613
830		0	_aOxford psychology series ; _vno. 39. _91042367
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0722/2005014885-b.html
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