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 way d...

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1. Verfasser: Nanay, Bence
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Schlagworte:
Biology, life sciences
Cognition and cognitive psychology
Imagery (Psychology)
imagination
Life sciences: general issues
Mathematics and Science
mental imagery
Neuropsychology
neuroscience
Neurosciences
perception
Philosophy
Philosophy and Religion
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy: aesthetics
Psychology
Society and Social Sciences
Topics in philosophy
ISBN:9780198809500, 0198809506
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  • Cover -- Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience -- Copyright -- 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