Table of Contents

Resolving the imagery debates; carving a system at its joints; high-level vision; identifying objects in different locations; identifying objects when different portions are visible; identifying objects in degraded images; identifying contorted objects; identifying objects - normal and damaged brains; generating and maintaining visual images; inspecting and transforming visual images; visual mental images in the brain.

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This is a splendid book, grand in its scope and subtle in its execution. The account Kosslyn provides of the cognitive architecture of imagery and vision and its neurophysiological basis, is unparalleled in its explanatory power. Image and Brain is surely destined to become a landmark in the development of cognitive psychology. -- Michael Tye, Temple University/Kings College Image And Brain is a rarity in the brainand cognitive sciences -- a 20-year research project on a single topic, combining hundreds of imaginative experiments, a thorough literature review, and a synthesis of computational, experimental, neurobiological, clinical, and individual-differences research into a substantive theory. Image and Brain is a brilliant and original contribution to the study of mind, and a conclusive demonstration of the promise of a new field, congnitive neuroscience. -- Steven Pinker, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is. -- Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California

About the Author

Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology- Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain- The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

Reviews

" Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitiveneuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn"sBig Picture, but that is probably the best there is." Irving Biederman , William M. Keck Professor of CognitiveNeuroscience, University of Southern California.