Image And Brain : The Resolution of the Imagery Debate PDF
by Stephen M. Kosslyn
Part of the A Bradford Book series
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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.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:526 pages
- Publisher:The MIT Press
- Publication Date:26/08/1996
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- ISBN:9780262277488
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:526 pages
- Publisher:The MIT Press
- Publication Date:26/08/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780262277488
