Editroial

Simon Lacey, Rebecca Lawson

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingForeword/postscript

Abstract

Are a beagle's ears bigger than a bulldog's? Which of Mona Lisa's hands is crossed over the other? We might answer such questions by engaging in visual imagery, using a mental representation that is similar to the visual representation that is activated when we really see a physical dog or a painting. Such quasi-perceptual visual experiences are often described as seeing with the mind's eye. While such mental representations are being maintained, they can be inspected in order to determine that the beagle's ears are bigger and Mona Lisa's right hand is crossed over the left. But imagery is not restricted to vision: deciding whether the Moonlight Sonata would sound better if Brendel played it a little faster or whether a pear tastes sweeter than a peach appeals to imagery in other senses.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMultisensory Imagery
PublisherSpringer New York
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
Volume9781461458791
ISBN (Electronic)9781461458791
ISBN (Print)1461458781, 9781461458784
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2013

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Medicine
  • General Neuroscience

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