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Mental image

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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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
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Mental image → According, Allegory, Berkeley, Bishop George Berkeley, Book VII, Cave, In, Mental, Plato, Republic, Socrates, The, These, Unenlightened
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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
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Mental image → Mental Imagery, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia
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Mental image → experience that, reactivation
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Mental image → Some, While

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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

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