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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

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Experimental psychology

• Full title: Image and Brain
• Subtitle: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
• Author: Stephen Michael Kosslyn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526
• EAN: 9780262611244
• ID: 04562449
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Weight: 1044 g
• Dimensions: 249 × 180 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 1996

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