(Not in Imagery
Thinking Visually
- By Stephen K. Reed.
Published January 2010
Language is a marvelous tool for communication, but it is greatly overrated as a tool for thought. This volume documents the many ways pictures, visual images, and spatial metaphors influence our thinking. It discusses both classic and recent research that support the view that visual thinking…
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Neuroimaging of Mental Imagery
A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Edited by Michel Denis, Stephen M. Kosslyn and Emmanuel Mellet.
Published October 2004
Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive but elusive phenomenon continues to motivate a…
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Mental Imagery and Memory in Psychopathology
A Special Issue of Memory
- Edited by Emily A. Holmes, and Ann Hackmann.
Published July 2004
Intrusive mental images in the form of flashbacks have long been recognised as a hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, clinicians have become increasingly aware that distressing imagery is a more pervasive phenomenon. There appears to be a powerful link between imagery and…
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Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking
- Edited by Michel Denis, Robert Logie, Cesare Cornoldo, Manuel de Vega and Johannes EngelKamp.
Published December 2000
Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment to generating pictures in our minds from…
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Imagery in Working Memory and Mental Discovery
A Special Issue of the European Cognitive Psychology
- By Tore Helstrup, and Robert H. Logie.
Published October 1999
The topic of mental imagery has reached a stage of considerable maturity with a large published literature and a wide range of experimental paradigms now available. In recent years there has been a growing interest in uses for imagery in mental discovery and in the link between imagery and…
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