Generating visual images: units and relations.

By Stephen M. Kosslyn, Brian J. Reiser, Martha J. Farah, Sharon L. Fliegel. 1983

Subfields: Generative Models

How researchers see this paper

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1. Ben Alderson-Day
2. Charles Fernyhough
3. Timothy Hubbard
4. Giorgio Ganis
5. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
6. Stephen M. Kosslyn
7. William L. Thompson
8. E. Altschuler

Citations in the corpus

• Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “Complex or multipart images are known to take longer to generate than simple images (Hubbard & Stoeckig, 1988; Kosslyn et al., 1983), and this may particularly be the case for visual imagery in children.”
• Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI study. (2004, background): “Furthermore, because it is unlikely that people can image stimuli at the rate of 1 every second [37], it is not clear whether the observed differences reflect intrinsic distinctions between visual mental imagery and perception or instead reflect other differences between the two conditions.”
• The use of visual feedback, in particular mirror visual feedback, in restoring brain function. (2009, background): “as if your brain is doing a virtual reality simulation (Kosslyn et al., 1983).”
• Musical imagery: generation of tones and chords. (1988, background): “If subjects generate chords by imaging a piecemeal sequence of the constituent tones (as suggested by the results of Kosslyn et al., 1983), then generation times for chords should be greater than those for single tones.”