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.
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Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience (philosophy, psychology and neuroscience), this book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. Mental imagery plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes; but also plays an important role in emotions, action execution and even in our desires.
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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
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Bence Nanay is currently BOF Research Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and worked at Syracuse University as a professor before moving to Europe. He is the Director of the European Network for Sensory Research. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on the philosophy and psychology of perception. His work is supported by a large number of high-profile grants, including a two-million-Euro grant from the European Research Council. He also won the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation for his work on perception.
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Covers a great number of debates about mental imagery and the mind in general Written with a general audience in mind, it does not presuppose any previous knowledge of the topic Offers a completely novel perspective on both mental imagery itself and the role it plays in our mental life An Open Access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license
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ISBN
9780198809500
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
616 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
263 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
322

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Bence Nanay is currently BOF Research Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and worked at Syracuse University as a professor before moving to Europe. He is the Director of the European Network for Sensory Research. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on the philosophy and psychology of perception. His work is supported by a large number of high-profile grants, including a two-million-Euro grant from the European Research Council. He also won the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation for his work on perception.