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Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

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Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , Volume 7 (3): 6 – Jul 1, 1995
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Downloaded from http://mitprc.silverchair.com/jocn/article-pdf/7/3/415/1755241/jocn.1995.7.3.415.pdf by guest on 18 May 2021 Book Reviews Stephen M. Kosslyn Cambridge, MA: The MlT Press, 1994 Hardbound, 516 pages, $45.00. ISBN 0-262-11184-5 Reviewed by Melvyn A. Goodale This is a book about mental images and how they are tients, Kosslyn and his colleagues have adapted these generated by the brain. It is a book that 20 years ago techniques in designing sophisticated “subtraction” para- could not have been written-not simply because we digms for PET and MRI. did not have the technology to carry out many of the Image and Brain provides an amazingly detailed re- experiments that are described in the book, but also view of the imagery literature, particularly the work that because most cognitive scientists studying imagery were has been done since 1980. It also shows just how much simply not interested in the brain. They were content to Kosslyn has contributed to the field. It is not simply the study the processes that are important for the formation sheer volume of work that is impressive, but the ingen- of mental images without worrying much about how ious way in which so many of the experiments were such processes might be instantiated

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Published: Jul 1, 1995

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