Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
By (Author) Stephen M. Kosslyn
MIT Press Ltd
MIT Press
26th August 1996
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology
Experimental psychology
153.32
Physical Properties
Paperback
526
Width 180mm, Height 249mm, Spine 30mm
1043g
Description
How are images employed in processing information This work by Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a 20-year research programme 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. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques with results that provide strong support for the critical role that imagery plays in how the brain interprets the world.
Reviews
" Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitiveneuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn"sBig Picture, but that is probably the best there is." Irving Biederman , William M. Keck Professor of CognitiveNeuroscience, University of Southern California.
Author Bio
Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology- Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain- The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).
