Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "mental imagery"

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    • Dissociation Between Visual Attention and Visual Mental Imagery 

      Thompson, William L.; Hsiao, Yaling; Kosslyn, Stephen Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2010-10-27)
      Visual mental imagery (which involves generating and transforming visual mental representations, i.e., seeing with the mind's eye) and visual attention appear to be distinct processes. However, some researchers have claimed ...

    • Imagining Predictions: Mental Imagery as Mental Emulation 

      Moulton, Samuel; Kosslyn, Stephen (The Royal Society, 2009)
      We argue that the primary function of mental imagery is to allow us to generate specific predictions based upon past experience. All imagery allows us to answer 'what if ' questions by making explicit and accessible the ...