Neuropsychology of Mental Imagery

Name: Neuropsychology of Mental Imagery
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ISBN: 9780080427331

ISBN-10: 0080427332

ISBN-13: 9780080427331

Edition: 1995

Authors: M. Behrmann, Stephen M. Kosslyn, M. Jeannerod

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Visual and auditory imagery is seeing and hearing in the absence of immediate sensory input. Mental imagery is a central cognitive process and plays an important role in, for example, memory, spatial reasoning, skill learning and language comprehension. Interest in mental imagery has waxed and waned for centuries but is now enjoying a revival, fuelled by the emergence of new experimental methods and by new ways of conceptualizing the numerous component processes involved in mental imagery. As illustrated in this book, the confluence of these factors has produced a new wave of discoveries not only about the nature and function of imagery, but also about its neural bases. areas of research in…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



The cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery



The efficacy of imagery mnemonics in memory remediation



Memory for different kinds of mental images: Role of contextual and autobiographic variables



Imagery without perception - A case study of anosognosia for cortical blindness



Preserved visual imagery in visual form agnosia



Motor imagery: Perception or action?



Mental imagery in the motor context



The role of subvocalization in auditory imagery



Current issues in the neuropsychology of image generation



Generating visual mental images: Deficit after brain damage



Two types of image generation: Evidence for left and right hemisphere processes



Mental scanning of visual images generated from verbal descriptions: Towards a model of image accuracy



The mental and the neural: Psychological and neural studies of mental rotation and memory scanning



Visuo-spatial working memory: Structures and variables affecting a capacity measure



Analogical representation and language structure



Varieties of visual representation: How are we to analyze the concept of mental image?



Subject Index