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Book SynopsisAimed 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.
Table of ContentsForeword 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
