Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

di Stephen M. Kosslyn (Autore)

MIT Press Ltd, 1996

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 and Brain 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.Kosslyn 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, Kosslyn 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. A Bradford Book

• Autore: Stephen M. Kosslyn
• Editore: MIT Press Ltd
• Collana: Image And Brain
• Anno: 1996
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 526 p.
• Dimensioni: 249 x 180 mm
• Peso: 1043 gr.
• EAN: 9780262611244

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