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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The andquot;great debateandquot; in cognitive science today is about the nature of mental images. One side says images are basically pictures in the head. The other side says they are like the symbol structures in computers. If the picture-in-the-head theorists are right, then computers will never be able to think like people.

This book contains the most intelligible and incisive articles in the debate, articles by cognitive psychologists, computer scientists and philosophers. The most exciting imagery phenomena are described, phenomena that indicate that mental images can be rotated and scanned, that smaller images are harder to see than larger ones, that when mental images are made larger they eventually overflow, that the andquot;screenandquot; they overflow from has a determinable shape (elliptical), and that this andquot;screenandquot; subtends a determinate visual angle, the angle of vision of the mind's eye.

Such experiments cry out for explanation. If images are pictures in the head, who (or what) looks at them? Why haven't brain scientists found them? Such questions are the subject of the great debate.

IMAGERY is an excellent choice for courses in cognitive psychology, perception: artificial intelligence, computer science; philosophy of mind, of psychology and of science; minds and machines, science and society.

Contributors include: Roger Brown and Richard Herrnstein (on the work of Roger N. Shepard), Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor, Robert Schwartz, Stephen Kosslyn, Steven Pinker, George Smith, Steven Shwartz, and Zenon Pylyshyn,

Review:

andquot;The unexpected revival of experimental work on the properties of mental images has stimulated both elegant experimentation and intense philosophical controversy; this exceptionally well-selected group of papers includes examples of both, Every cognitive scientist and every philosopher of mind should be fascinated!andquot;
andmdash;Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

Review:

andquot;Ned Block's book, IMAGERY, would make an excellent, coherent unit for undergraduate and graduate study. It contains many of the critical studies and covers the high points of the experimental and theoretical research in mental representation, which is fast becoming the fundamental issue in cognitive science.andquot;
andmdash;Edward Smith, Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Harvard University

Synopsis:

Contributors include: Roger Brown and Richard Herrnstein (on the work of Roger N. Shepard), Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor, Robert Schwartz, Stephen Kosslyn, Steven Pinker, George Smith, Steven Shwartz, and Zenon Pylyshyn,

Product Details

ISBN:
9780262520720
Publisher:
The MIT Press
Subject:
Cognitive Psychology
Author:
Block, Ned J.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Bradford Books
Publication Date:
19811106
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Pages:
270
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in

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