Mental Imagery

Title: Mental Imagery
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Mental Imagery

Mental Imagery: What is our Imagination? Imagine that you are fishing by a lake, sitting on the soft green grass looking into the clear blue water, and drinking a cold beer. It is possible for humans to explicitly imagine and describe this situation, even down to the colors of the beer can; but there is one problem: how does the brain allow the description of tangible objects that are not in the actual perception field? …showed first 75 words of 1188 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1188 total…was an exclusive result of the nature of the mental images, it only proved that the oblique effect existed. The Descriptionist theory could still explain the oblique effect by showing that it is a result of the configuration of the mental language structure created by subjects for the stripes as sentences of descriptions of the stripes. Kosslyn’s experiment correctly illustrates the Pictorialist theory, but is not substantial enough to show that Descriptionism is wrong.

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