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- Mental imagery (varieties of which are sometimes colloquially refered to as “visualizing,” “seeing in the mind's eye,” “hearing in the head,” “imagining the feel of,” etc.) is quasi-perceptual experience; it resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate external stimuli.
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Nov 18, 1997 · If you close your eyes and visualize an apple, what you experience is mental imagery – visual imagery. But mental imagery is far more pervasive in our mental life than just visualizing. It happens in all sense modalities and it plays a crucial role not just in perception, but also in memory, emotions, language, desires and action-execution.
- Imagination
Although it is possible to form mental images in any of the...
- Desire
Even if desires form a large unified group of mental states,...
- Memory
Episodic memory is increasingly understood as a form of...
- Mental Representation
The notion of a “mental representation” is, arguably, in the...
- Imagination
Nov 18, 1997 · In the introduction to this entry, in order to avoid making a premature commitment to the picture theory, and in accordance with definitions given by psychologists such as McKellar (1957), Richardson (1969), and Finke (1989), mental imagery was characterized as a form of experience (i.e., as {1}).
In the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science, a mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of "perceiving" some object, event, or scene but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses.
Feb 1, 2021 · Mental imagery can be defined as “representations and the accompanying experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus” (Pearson et al. 2015, p. 590), or in more colloquial terms as “‘seeing with the mind’s eye,’ ‘hearing with the mind’s ear,’ and so on” (Kosslyn et al. 2001, p. 635).
- Simon E. Blackwell
- simon.blackwell@rub.de
- 2021
Aug 26, 2024 · As neuroscientists in the fields of physical therapy and psychology, we think about the ways people use mental imagery. Here is what researchers do know so far.
Aug 5, 2019 · Mental imagery has played a central role in discussions of mental function for thousands of years, first by philosophers, then by psychologists, and now by neuroscientists. Almost any...
Feb 1, 2013 · Mental imagery is an under-explored field in clinical psychology research but presents a topic of potential interest and relevance across many clinical disorders, including social phobia, schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
