Mental Imagery, Philosophical Issues about
Nigel J. T. Thomas
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Nigel J. T. Thomas
Abstract
Abstract Mental imagery, often informally described as ‘seeing in the mind's eye’, ‘visualization’, etc., is quasi‐perceptual experience: it significantly resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate perceptual stimuli.
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Abstract Mental imagery, often informally described as ‘seeing in the mind's eye’, ‘visualization’, etc., is quasi‐perceptual experience: it significantly resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate perceptual stimuli.
Key concepts: Mental image, Perception, Creative visualization, Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Visualization, Cognitive science, Computer science