Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate - Softcover

Kosslyn, Stephen M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262611244 ISBN 13: 9780262611244

Publisher: MIT Press, 1996

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of C ognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

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: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262611244
• ISBN 13: 9780262611244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528