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Essay on Mental Imagery
Mental imagery has given rise to one of the most vigorously debated areas of psychology. Research in this area has generated an abundance of theory, together with contrasting positions and heated discussion. However, the vis polemica present in many studies in the field apparently tends to address detailed aspects of individual studies rather than general philosophical questions or psychological theories that have their roots in the history of human thinking.
When we talk of seeing an image, either in front of us or visualised with closed eyes, we invoke a range of metaphors and ideas which highlight the relationship between perception and imagery. For those of us with unimpaired vision, to see with ‘the mind’s eye’ conjures up a picture of perception where there is not a great deal of difference between an external or internal image. What we see inside is an image of what we have already seen outside. Likewise, to consider perception as ‘image stimulation’ or ‘inscription’ on a retinal tableau evokes ideas of non-conscious automatic perceptual processing, where ‘brain-mind’ cognitive transformations make possible the phenomenon of perception. There are at least two meanings to the word perception: one being the reception of information through the senses, the other as ‘mental insight’, which would include processes dependent on memories and expectations. The psychology of visual perception has concentrated on the former and avoided asking the question, ‘under what conditions can it be claimed that one sees anything at all?’, leaving such issues to philosophy and phenomenology.
The dominant position of perception research within psychology rests on the aims of cognitive science. The interdisciplinary synthesis that constitutes cognitive science is both ‘anti-reductionist’ and mentalistic, in that, ‘The fundamental premise of cognitive science is that human behavior is rule governed and generative. That is to say, algorithmic rules intervene between different stages in coding processes in order to permit goal-directed problem solving’ (Sinha 1988:115).................
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