Mental Imagery
Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 18 April 2023
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780198809500 |
ISBN10: | 0198809506 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 320 pages |
Size: | 240x263x22 mm |
Weight: | 616 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience (philosophy, psychology and neuroscience), this book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. Mental imagery plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes; but also plays an important role in emotions, action execution and even in our desires.
Long description:
Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience 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 different sense-modalities interact). But mental imagery also plays a very important role in emotions, action execution, and even in our desires. In sum, there are very few mental phenomena that mental imagery doesn't show up in--in some way or other. The hope is that if we understand what mental imagery is, how it works and how it is related to other mental phenomena, we can make real progress on a number of important questions about the mind.
This book is written for an interdisciplinary audience. As it aims to combine philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to understand mental imagery, the author has not presupposed any prior knowledge in any of these disciplines, so any reader can follow the arguments.
This book is written for an interdisciplinary audience. As it aims to combine philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to understand mental imagery, the author has not presupposed any prior knowledge in any of these disciplines, so any reader can follow the arguments.
Table of Contents:
Mental imagery in psychology and neuroscience
Mental imagery in philosophy
Varieties of mental imagery
Unconscious mental imagery
The unity of mental imagery
The content of mental imagery
Mental imagery in perception
Amodal completion
Perception/mental imagery mixed cases
Attention and mental imagery
Top-down influences on perception and mental imagery
Temporal mental imagery
Multimodal mental imagery
Sense modalities in mental imagery
Sensory substitution and echolocation
Synesthesia
Pain
Object files
Language
Memory
Boundary extension
Mental imagery versus imagination
Emotion
Knowledge
Desire
Pragmatic mental imagery
Motor imagery and action
Cognitive dissonance
Implicit bias
Clinical applications of mental imagery
Mental imagery in art
Mental imagery in philosophy
Varieties of mental imagery
Unconscious mental imagery
The unity of mental imagery
The content of mental imagery
Mental imagery in perception
Amodal completion
Perception/mental imagery mixed cases
Attention and mental imagery
Top-down influences on perception and mental imagery
Temporal mental imagery
Multimodal mental imagery
Sense modalities in mental imagery
Sensory substitution and echolocation
Synesthesia
Pain
Object files
Language
Memory
Boundary extension
Mental imagery versus imagination
Emotion
Knowledge
Desire
Pragmatic mental imagery
Motor imagery and action
Cognitive dissonance
Implicit bias
Clinical applications of mental imagery
Mental imagery in art