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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
