A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …

Reviews the visual masking literature in the context of known neurophysiological and
psychophysical properties of the visual system's spatiotemporal response. The literature …

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 …

Fundamental to spatial knowledge in all species are the representations underlying object
recognition, object search, and navigation through space. But what sets humans apart from …

Damage to a particular area of the brain—the neocortex—is generally understood to result
in blindness. Studies of some patients who have suffered from this form of blindness have …

This chapter attempts to disrupt performance using a concurrent visual task, brightness
judgment, for which the spatial demands were minimal. The role of imagery in verbal …

Long studied by anthropologists, historians, and linguists, oral traditions have provided a
wealth of fascinating insights into unique cultural customs that span the history of …

A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities,
recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the …

Visual recognition, navigation, tracking, and imagery are posited to share certain high-level
processing subsystems. In the first part of this article, a theory of some of these subsystems …

The course of enzymic differentiation in liver can be altered in a positive, biologically
meaningful direction by the administration of glucagon, epinephrine, and thyroxine to fetal …