Image And Brain

The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

Stephen M. Kosslyn (Minerva Schools at KGI)

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English

MIT Press
26 August 1996

Experimental psychology; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology

Series: Image And Brain

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.

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By: Stephen M. Kosslyn (Minerva Schools at KGI)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 249mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9780262611244
ISBN 10: 0262611244
Series: Image And Brain
Pages: 526
Publication Date: 26 August 1996
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Resolving the imagery debates; carving a system at its joints; high-level vision; identifying objects in different locations; identifying objects when different portions are visible; identifying objects in degraded images; identifying contorted objects; identifying objects - normal and damaged brains; generating and maintaining visual images; inspecting and transforming visual images; visual mental images in the brain.

Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology- Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain- The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

Reviews for Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is. --Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California.