Concepts, Results, and Applications
The stream of our consciousness contains an almost unceasing parade of sensation-like experiences, even in the absence of any external stimulation to produce them. We experience picture-like things, sound-like things, and more; our experiences can resembl
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IMAGERY Volume 1 Its Many Dimensions and Applications Edited by Joseph E. Shorr, Gail E. Sobel, Pennee Robin, and Jack A. Connella Volume 2 Concepts, Results, and Applications Edited by Eric Klinger
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IMAGERY
Volume Z Concepts, Results, and Applications Edited by
Eric Klinger University ofMinnesota Morri~Minnesota
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title:
Imagery: concepts, results, and applications.
"Vol. 2." "A selection of papers delivered at the 1980 annual conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery (AASMI)" Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Imagery (Psychology)-Congresses.1. Klinger, Eric, 1933. II. American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery . BF367.1458 153.3'2 81-8680 AACR2 ISBN 978-1-4684-3976-2 ISBN 978-1-4684-3974-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-3974-8
Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, held June 20-22, 1980, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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PREFACE
The stream of our consciousness contains an almost unceasing parade of sensation-like experiences, even in the absence of any external stimulation to produce them. We experience picture-like things, sound-like things, and more; our experiences can resemble any of our sense modalities. These experiences are what we refer to by the phrase "mental imagery." The images need not be vivid. People who doubt that they experience visual imagery are often persuaded by a simple exercise: count the windows of the house in which you live. Nearly everyone performs this task by walking around the house in imagination while counting windows, or by walking through the house counting them from the inside. The imaginary windows seem to be set in visual space. There is a temptation to point at them with an index finger while one counts, even though the images may never become vivid enough to seem like an actual visual experience. But if they seem set in visual space, if they can be pointed at, they clearly constitute a sensory-like experience in some meaningful way. The study of mental imagery was very much a central part of psychology until about 1920, when it went largely underground and nearly disappeared, especially in the United States, before reemerging in the 1960's. In the past two decades, work on imagery has steadily accelerated; and as the
