Image and brain : the resolution of the imagery debate
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Image and brain : the resolution of the imagery debate
(Bradford book)
MIT Press, c1994
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Bibliography: p. [429]-482
Includes indexes
Second printing, 1995
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. It marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. The author reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past. Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, the author uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques.
Table of Contents
- Resolving the imagery debates
- carving a system at its joints
- high-level vision
- identifying objects in different locations
- identifying objects when different portions are visible
- identifying objects in degraded images
- identifying contorted objects
- identifying objects - normal and damaged brains
- generating and maintaining visual images
- inspecting and transforming visual images
- visual mental images in the brain.
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