The case for mental imagery

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Extending the Soar Cognitive Architecture (2008, background): “One compelling example is visual imagery [ 26 ], which is useful for visual-feature and visual-spatial reasoning.”
Discussion of J. Kevin O’Regan’s “Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell: Understanding the Feel of Consciousness” (2012, unknown): “AVANT Volume III, Number 2/2012 www.avant.edu.pl/en 175”
Visual mental image generation does not overlap with visual short-term memory: A dual-task interference study (2012, unknown): “According to this view, MI generation would be supported by an active store (or visual buffer) that overlaps with perception and involves the primary visual areas in the posterior occipital cortex, including V1 (Ganis, Thompson, & Kosslyn, 2009; Kosslyn, 1994; Kosslyn et al., 1993; Kosslyn et al., 2”
Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications (2015, unknown): “For example, if we want to infer whether a German shepherd dog has pointed or floppy ears [116] we may need to invoke a V1-like representation as a component of our mental image.”
Analogues of mental simulation and imagination in deep learning (2019, unknown): “Other mental simulations are slow, noisy, and incomplete, with mental simulations lacking full detail [70], exhibiting systematically wrong dynamics [85], and requiring multiple seconds to run [6].”