Description
Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling features of perception (like the way it is influenced in a top-down manner and the way different sense-modalities interact). But mental imagery also plays a very important role in emotions, action execution, and even in our desires. In sum, there are very few mental phenomena that mental imagery doesn't show up in--in some way or other. The hope is that if we understand what mental imagery is, how it works and how it is related to other mental phenomena, we can make real progress on a number of important questions about the mind. This book is written for an interdisciplinary audience. As it aims to combine philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to understand mental imagery, the author has not presupposed any prior knowledge in any of these disciplines, so any reader can follow the arguments.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Part 1 Mental imagery
- 1: Mental imagery in psychology and neuroscience
- 2: Mental imagery in philosophy
- 3: Varieties of mental imagery
- 4: Unconscious mental imagery
- 5: The unity of mental imagery
- 6: The content of mental imagery
- Part II Perception
- 7: Mental imagery in perception
- 8: Amodal completion
- 9: Perception/mental imagery mixed cases
- 10: Attention and mental imagery
- 11: Top-down influences on perception and mental imagery
- 12: Temporal mental imagery
- Part III Multimodal perception
- 13: Multimodal mental imagery
- 14: Sense modalities in mental imagery
- 15: Sensory substitution and echolocation
- 16: Synesthesia
- 17: Pain
- 18: Object files
- Part IV Cognition
- 19: Language
- 20: Memory
- 21: Boundary extension
- 22: Mental imagery versus imagination
- 23: Emotion
- 24: Knowledge
- Part V Action
- 25: Desire
- 26: Pragmatic mental imagery
- 27: Motor imagery and action
- 28: Cognitive dissonance
- 29: Implicit bias
- 30: Clinical applications of mental imagery
- Part VI Appendix
- 31: Mental imagery in art
- Afterword
