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
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780262611244
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-262-61124-4
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.08.1996
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1996
- Serie: Bradford Books
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 1043 g
- Seiten: 526
- Format (B x H x T): 178 x 254 x 28 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt