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Mental Imagery, Philosophical Issues about

Nigel J. T. Thomas

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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.

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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.

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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

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