Reviews contemporary theories of relations between mental imagery and perception in
terms of structural, functional, and interactive theories. Structural theories propose that …

Reviews recent experimental work on imagery, identifying specific levels of information
processing within the visual system at which mental images and physical objects and events …

People often report that they can form mental images of an object that resemble the object's
actual appearance. The act of constructing such images often produces visual sen sations …

Describes a computational theory of imagery that posits that visual mental images are
transitory data structures that occur in an analog spatial medium. These" surface" …

Numerous experiments carried out over the past twenty years have probed the nature of
mental imagery and unlocked its powers." Principles of Mental Imagery" offers a broad …

What is the relation between perception and mental imagery? It has often been suggested,
by myself (Neisser, 1967) among others, that the same processes underlie both. More …

This book collects some of the most exciting pioneering work in perceptual and cognitive
psychology. The authors' quantitative approach to the study of mental images and their …

The intuition that imagery is similar to perception has led many psychologists to assume that
imaging an object consists of activating some of the same representational structures that …

Although neglected by cognitive psychologists, mental imagery appears to have played a
crucial role in far-reaching scientific developments. Without assuming anything about the …

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 …