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 …

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 …

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

Does mental imagery involve the activation of representations in the visual system?
Systematic effects of imagery on visual signal detection performance have been used to …

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 …

A number of different research findings have shown that mental imagery can affect the
perceptual processing of stimuli. The present research was aimed at characterizing the …

Using a temporal integration task, subjects in 5 experiments were expected to combine
information from temporally separated visual presentations. Evidence from these …

The perceptual recognition of objects is conceptualized to be a process in which the image
of the input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into an arrangement of simple …

Ambiguous pictures that could be seen as faces or as meaningless patterns were the stimuli
in two recognition-memory experiments. Recognition was far more accurate when the stimuli …

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