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Mental image: Art, Standards & Science

In the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science, a mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of "perceiving" some object, event, or scene but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses. There are sometimes episodes, particularly on falling…

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Mental image topic overview

The analysis highlights Art, Standards and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around Mental image.

Related topics
127
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
137
Extracted relationships
348
Concept neighborhoods
40
Bridge connections
137

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Physical basis · 37 topics
Visualization and religion · 19 topics
Neural substrates of visual imagery · 18 topics
Overview · 16 topics
Philosophical ideas · 15 topics
In experimental psychology · 11 topics
Mind's eye · 7 topics
Training and learning styles · 2 topics
Psychedelic drugs · 1 topics
Substitution effects · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Mind's eye

Physical basis

Neural substrates of visual imagery

Philosophical ideas

In experimental psychology

Training and learning styles

Visualization and religion

Substitution effects

Psychedelic drugs

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Mental image connects Entity context

The extracted context around Mental image shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Mental image → About Behaviorism, Acquisition, Aframian, Akademikerverlag, Albert, Allan, Alpert, Alvaro, Amorim, An Active Perception Approach, Angel Cammarota, Are Theories, Arnold, Associés, Auditory Imagery, Australia, Barsalou, Bartolomeo, Basic Books, Behavioral Another extracted example is Mental image → According, Allegory, Berkeley, Bishop George Berkeley, Book VII, Cave, In, Mental, Plato, Republic, Socrates, The, These, Unenlightened. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Mental image

Top relations

related to Further reading · 281
Mental image → About Behaviorism, Acquisition, Aframian, Akademikerverlag, Albert, Allan, Alpert, Alvaro, Amorim, An Active Perception Approach, Angel Cammarota, Are Theories, Arnold, Associés, Auditory Imagery, Australia, Barsalou, Bartolomeo, Basic Books, Behavioral
related to Philosophical ideas · 14
Mental image → According, Allegory, Berkeley, Bishop George Berkeley, Book VII, Cave, In, Mental, Plato, Republic, Socrates, The, These, Unenlightened
related to Physical basis · 11
Mental image → Attaallah, In, Maio, Ratey, Studies, Tabi, The, V1, Visual Imagery Questionnaire, Vividness, VVIQ
related to In experimental psychology · 7
Mental image → Cognitive, Jacqueline Metzler, Metzler, One, Psychologist Zenon Pylyshyn, Roger Shepard, Shepard
related to Training and learning styles · 6
Mental image → According, Educational, For, Proponents, Some, The
has effect · 4
Mental image → At, Imagined, Imagining, Mental
related to External links · 3
Mental image → Mental Imagery, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia
is a · 2
Mental image → experience that, reactivation
related to Psychedelic drugs · 2
Mental image → Some, While

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

imagery mental visual brain images perception cortex doi image mind 10 cognitive pmid neural studies vividness objects representations psychology experience

Mental image relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 348 structured relationships around Mental image. Examples in this analysis include Mental image → is a → experience that and Mental image → is a → reactivation. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Mental imageis aexperience that0.90text
Mental imageis areactivation0.90text
George Berkeleyinstance ofit has been difficult to assess whether or not non-human animals experience mental imagery.Philosophers0.80text
David Humeinstance ofit has been difficult to assess whether or not non-human animals experience mental imagery.Philosophers0.80text
and early experimental psychologists such as Wilhelm Wundtinstance ofit has been difficult to assess whether or not non-human animals experience mental imagery.Philosophers0.80text
William Jamesinstance ofit has been difficult to assess whether or not non-human animals experience mental imagery.Philosophers0.80text
understood ideas in general to be mental imagesinstance ofit has been difficult to assess whether or not non-human animals experience mental imagery.Philosophers0.80text
justice or loveinstance ofAnother example is the difference between thinking of abstract words0.80text
thinking of concrete words like elephant or chairinstance ofAnother example is the difference between thinking of abstract words0.80text
hands in directions incompatible with the joints of the human bodyinstance ofseveral studies have provided evidence that people are slower at rotating line drawings of objects0.80text
and that patients with painfulinstance ofseveral studies have provided evidence that people are slower at rotating line drawings of objects0.80text
injured arms are slower at mentally rotating line drawings of the hand from the side of the injured arm.Some psychologistsinstance ofseveral studies have provided evidence that people are slower at rotating line drawings of objects0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Mental image bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Imagery, Images and Visual. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Mental image
    • Imagery
    • Images
    • Visual
    • Representations
    • Rotation
    • Perception
    • Image
    • Mental
    • Brain
    • Cortex
    • Experience
    • Human
  • mental image
    • Imagery
    • Images
    • Visual
    • Representations
    • Rotation
    • Perception
    • Image
    • Mental
    • Brain
    • Mind
    • Cortex
    • Experience
  • cognitive science
    • Science
    • Neuroscience
    • Psychology
    • Brain
    • Experience
    • Research
    • Mental
    • Images
    • Neural
    • Vividness
    • Studies
    • Use
  • hypnagogic imagery
    • Visual
    • Mental
    • Cortex
    • Perception
    • Vividness
    • Brain
    • Found
    • Neural
    • Studies
    • Areas
    • Participants
    • Research
  • hypnopompic imagery
    • Visual
    • Mental
    • Cortex
    • Perception
    • Vividness
    • Brain
    • Found
    • Neural
    • Studies
    • Areas
    • Participants
    • Research
  • imagery
    • Visual
    • Mental
    • Cortex
    • Perception
    • Vividness
    • Brain
    • Found
    • Neural
    • Studies
    • Areas
    • Participants
    • Research
  • mental models
    • Imagery
    • Images
    • Visual
    • Representations
    • Rotation
    • Perception
    • Image
    • Brain
    • Cortex
    • Experience
    • Human
    • Vividness
  • visual cortex
    • Visual
    • Parietal
    • Areas
    • Perception
    • Vividness
    • Activation
    • Imagery
    • Found
    • Representations
    • Memory
    • Mental
    • Participants

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Mental image, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Mental image with Physical basis. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Mental image — Physical basis · splits 100 ⟂ 38
Mental image — Visualization and religion · splits 118 ⟂ 20
Mental image — Neural substrates of visual imagery · splits 119 ⟂ 19
Mental image — Overview · splits 121 ⟂ 17
Mental image — Philosophical ideas · splits 122 ⟂ 16
Mental image — In experimental psychology · splits 126 ⟂ 12
Mental image — Mind's eye · splits 130 ⟂ 8
Mental image — Training and learning styles · splits 135 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Mental image

Nodes138
Edges137
Triples348
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014493
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Mental image to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art, Standards & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Mental image · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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