Mental imagery : philosophy, psychology, neuroscience /

"This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling features of perception (like the way it is influenced in a top-down manner and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nanay, Bence (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • List of Figures
  • Part I. Mental Imagery
  • 1. Mental Imagery in Psychology and Neuroscience
  • 2. Mental Imagery in Philosophy
  • 3. Varieties of Mental Imagery
  • 4. Unconscious Mental Imagery
  • 5. The Unity of Mental Imagery
  • 6. The Content of Mental Imagery
  • Part II. Perception
  • 7. Mental Imagery in Perception
  • 8. Amodal Completion
  • 9. Perception/Mental Imagery Mixed Cases
  • 10. Attention and Mental Imagery
  • 11. Top-Down Influences on Perception and Mental Imagery
  • 12. Temporal Mental Imagery
  • Part III. Multimodal Perception
  • 13. Multimodal Mental Imagery
  • 14. Sense Modalities in Mental Imagery
  • 15. Sensory Substitution and Echolocation
  • 16. Synesthesia
  • 17. Pain
  • 18. Object Files
  • Part IV. Cognition
  • 19. Language
  • 20. Memory
  • 21. Boundary Extension
  • 22. Mental Imagery versus Imagination
  • 23. Emotion
  • 24. Knowledge
  • Part V. Action
  • 25. Desire
  • 26. Pragmatic Mental Imagery
  • 27. Motor Imagery and Action
  • 28. Cognitive Dissonance
  • 29. Implicit Bias
  • 30. Clinical Applications of Mental Imagery
  • Part VI. Appendix
  • 31. Mental Imagery in Art
  • Afterword: Is There Anything That Is Not Mental Imagery?
  • References
  • Index