Image And Brain

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision neuroscience and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery its relation to visual perception and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery.Kosslyn reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked and goes on to show how quasi-pictorial events in the brain are generated interpreted and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past.Known for his work in high-level vision one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology Kosslyn uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques.A Bradford Book