Topographical representations of mental images in primary visual cortex

By Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Irene J. Klm, N. Alpert. 1995

Subfields: Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Imagery of voluntary movement of fingers, toes, and tongue activates corresponding body-part-specific motor representations. (2003, background): “Others have demonstrated a relationship between the specific type of visual stimuli being imagined and the activation of the corresponding stimulusspecific visual areas (Kosslyn et al. 1995, 1998; O'Craven and Kanwisher 2001).”
Mental Imagery of Faces and Places Activates Corresponding Stimulus-Specific Brain Regions (2000, background): “AVGx is across all five subjects. engage retinotopic regions of cortex (Kosslyn et al., 1995; Farah et al., 1992; but see D'Esposito et al., 1997; Roland & Gulyas, 1994, 1995).”
Eye Movements During Comprehension of Spoken Scene Descriptions (2000, background): “, Bower & Morrow, 1990; Bryant, 1997; Johnson-Laird, 1983, 1996), cognition often uses linguistic input to activate memory representations, and imagery may then use those memory representations to partially activate perceptual representations (e.g., Farah, 1995; Finke, 1986; Kosslyn et al., 1995).”
Neural foundations of imagery (2001, background): “In one study, subjects were asked to visualize line drawings of objects at different sizes (as if they fit into boxes that were memorized before the PET scan”
Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex. (2003, unknown): “Kosslyn et al. 57 showed that in fMRI studies a subject’s V1 lights up differentially only when he or she is asked to imagine things or perform tasks that involve information of ﬁne details.”
Visual Imagery of Famous Faces: Effects of Memory and Attention Revealed by fMRI (2002, background): “…studies reporting activation in V1 revealed that the great majority of the imagery tasks were based on recall from STM (e.g., Le Bihan et al., 1993; Kosslyn et al., 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999; Chen et al., 1998; Goebel et al., 1998; O'Craven and Kanwisher, 2000; Thompson et al., 2001), whereas imagery…”
Reading the mind's eye: decoding category information during mental imagery (2009, background): “Accordingly, both visual perception and imagery activate earlier areas, particularly when subjects judge fine details of a stimulus (Ganis et al., 2004; Kosslyn et al., 1995).”
Visual image reconstruction from human brain activity using a combination of multiscale local image decoders. (2008, result): “Several studies have suggested that these subjective percepts occur in the early visual cortex (Kosslyn et al., 1995), consistent with the retinotopy map (Meng et al.”