Mental imagery : : philosophy, psychology, neuroscience / / Bence Nanay.

• Superior document: Oxford scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Nanay, Bence,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 pages)
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2023.

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Figures -- Part I. 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: Is There Anything That Is Not Mental Imagery? -- References -- Index.