Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

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MIT Press, 26 août 1996 - 526 pages
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

 

Table des matières

Resolving the Imagery Debates
1
Carving a System at Its Joints
25
Highlevel Vision
53
Identifying Objects in Different Locations
79
Identifying Objects When Different Portions Are Visible
105
Identifying Objects in Degraded Images
153
Identifying Contorted Objects
191
Normal and Damaged Brains
247
Generating and Maintaining Visual Images
285
Inspecting and Transforming Visual Images
327
Visual Mental Images in the Brain
379
Notes
409
References
429
Author Index
483
Subject Index
495
Droits d'auteur

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Page 434 - Fedio, P. (1972). Comparison of parietal and frontal lobe spatial deficits in man: Extrapersonal vs. personal (egocentric) space.
Page 439 - De Renzi, E., Faglioni, P., & Scotti, G. (1971). Judgment of spatial orientation in patients with focal brain damage. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery . and Psychiatry, 34, 489-495. De Renzi, E., & Scotti, G.

À propos de l'auteur (1996)

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 Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

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