Image & Brain – The Resolution of the Imagery Debate - Hardcover

Kosslyn, Stephen M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262111845 ISBN 13: 9780262111843

Publisher: MIT Press, 1994

Synopsis

This work integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. It 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. The author 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, the author 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.

About this title

Review

-- Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California.

" "Image and Brain" attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is." -- Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California.

& quot; Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is.& quot; -- Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California.

"

""Image and Brain" attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is."--Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California.

From the Back Cover

This book marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, it relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262111845
• ISBN 13: 9780262111843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 526