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Author: Stephen M. Kosslyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780674443662
ISBN 10: 0674443667
Pages: 515
Publication Date: 01 January 1986
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Image and Mind is, in a sense, like a great novel--it can be read and appreciated from many different viewpoints: it is an account of the author's experiments, some of the cleverest in cognitive psychology. It contains a comprehensive theory of the imagery system with some novel standards of evaluation. It summarizes the methods and results of a computer simulation of the imagery system. It is a storehouse of ideas for the developmental psychologist. It is a treatise on the philosophy of science, with a number of ideas that will be new to many psychologists. Finally, it is a philosophical statement of the nature of mental events... In summary, Image and Mind is undoubtedly a landmark in cognitive psychology. It has served to define a field: to state the issues, to indicate important unsolved problems, to provide a fairly comprehensive theory of imagery, and to provide a model of how unobservable states can be studied and theorized about.--Contemporary Psychology
Image and Mind is, in a sense, like a great novel-it can be read and appreciated from many different viewpoints: it is an account of the author's experiments, some of the cleverest in cognitive psychology. It contains a comprehensive theory of the imagery system with some novel standards of evaluation. It summarizes the methods and results of a computer simulation of the imagery system. It is a storehouse of ideas for the developmental psychologist. It is a treatise on the philosophy of science, with a number of ideas that will be new to many psychologists. Finally, it is a philosophical statement of the nature of mental events... In summary, Image and Mind is undoubtedly a landmark in cognitive psychology. It has served to define a field: to state the issues, to indicate important unsolved problems, to provide a fairly comprehensive theory of imagery, and to provide a model of how unobservable states can be studied and theorized about. * Contemporary Psychology * A very ambitious project to understand visual imagery from the perspective of modern experimental psychology. * American Journal of Psychology *
Author Information
Stephen M. Kosslyn is John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
