Mental Imagery, Philosophical Issues about

Thomas, Nigel J. T.

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“…Mental imagery is the ability to create an inner "image" in any sensory modality, in the absence of a physical stimulus (Freeman, 1981;Pylyshyn, 1973). Imagery can be thought of as reconstructions of sensory experiences from the past, to anticipate experiences to come (Thomas, 2006). In this capacity, it can help in everyday activities, such as planning for the future and reflecting on past events (Gregg, Hall, & Nederhof, 2005;Kosslyn, Thompson, & Ganis, 2006), and it has been linked to several aspects of cognition, such as memory and spatial reasoning (Kosslyn, Behrmann, & Jeannerod, 1995;Marschark & Cornoldi, 1991).…”

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Measuring Multisensory Imagery of Wine: the Vividness of Wine Imagery Questionnaire

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When we imagine objects or events, we often engage in multisensory mental imagery. Yet, investigations of mental imagery have typically focused on only one sensory modality — vision. One reason for this is that the most common tool for the measurement of imagery, the questionnaire, has been restricted to unimodal ratings of the object. We present a new mental imagery questionnaire that measures multisensory imagery. Specifically, the newly developed Vividness of Wine Imagery Questionnaire (VWIQ) measures mental imagery of wine in the visual, olfactory, and gustatory modalities. Wine is an ideal domain to explore multisensory imagery because wine drinking is a multisensory experience, it involves the neglected chemical senses (smell and taste), and provides the opportunity to explore the effect of experience and expertise on imagery (from wine novices to experts). The VWIQ questionnaire showed high internal consistency and reliability, and correlated with other validated measures of imagery. Overall, the VWIQ may serve as a useful tool to explore mental imagery for researchers, as well as individuals in the wine industry during sommelier training and evaluation of wine professionals.

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“…What appears to have emerged is the view that mental representations (image-like or otherwise) can elicit quasi-perceptual experiences that are conscious (Thomas, 2003). That is, one can have a quasi-perceptual picture-like experience without necessarily assuming that such a picture-like representation is actually stored in memory.…”

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From Doubt to Functionality: An Imagery Story

Adaval

2018

FNT in Marketing

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Mental imagery and mental simulations play an important role in any consumption experience. For decades, however, the famed "imagery debate" dominated discussions on imagery and to some extent stymied research on how imagery impacts consumption. As researchers debated whether a picture-like component was part of the underlying mental representation or not, a researcher's inability to produce concrete evidence that people had indeed formed mental images was often used to challenge imagery-based explanations. Despite this, the last decade has witnessed burgeoning research on how consumers use imagery in a myriad of waysoften in the service of some larger goal. The monograph views imagery through this functional lens and reviews and organizes these findings. This review provides a historical perspective on imagery research and then uses evidence from past research to lay down a conceptual foundation for new work that will undoubtedly emerge in the coming decades. Questions such as "What triggers imagery?" "Are there differences between perception and imagery?" "How do we use imagery to create simulations and imagine what we do not see?" "How does imagery exert an influence?" and "Are there individual and

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“…The verbal image is the sound (visual) representation of a certain mental formation, mirrored in language and speech as a word, word combination or even a fragment of a text. At the same time, the mental image is that very mental formation based on experience (Thomas 2003), which is tied to the linguistic sign or verbal image. Finally, image-schema is a pre-conceptual structure of a gestalt nature, which helps to structure sensory-motor experience (Hampe 2005, 1).…”

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Emily Dickinson’s Poetry in Ukrainian and Russian Translation: Synaesthetic Shift

Shurma¹,

Chesnokova²

2017

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This paper focuses on synaesthetic shift occurring in translation of Emily Dickinson's poetry into Ukrainian and Russian. The research is in line with Redka's (2009) view of verbal and poetic synaesthesia, a trope which is structurally represented as a word combination, a sentence or even a poem, and manifests itself in the text as the author's perception of objective reality via visual, colour, tactile, olfactory, auditory and gustatory sensation. We aim to describe two types of poetic synaesthesia: metaphoric, which is realized in the text as an image and is represented in cognition as conceptual metaphor or metonymy; and non-metaphoric, which is triggered by a combination of verbal images and phonetic instrumentation and versification.We thus hypothesise that synaesthetic shift between source and target images leads to the change of the original image and results from changes in versification and phonetic instrumentation patterns in poetry, verbal images and conceptual cross-domain mapping.

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Mental Imagery, Philosophical Issues about

Abstract: Mental imagery, often informally described as ‘seeing in the mind's eye’, ‘visualization’, etc., is quasi‐perceptual experience: it significantly resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate perceptual stimuli.

Cited by 12 publications

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Measuring Multisensory Imagery of Wine: the Vividness of Wine Imagery Questionnaire

Measuring Multisensory Imagery of Wine: the Vividness of Wine Imagery Questionnaire

From Doubt to Functionality: An Imagery Story

Emily Dickinson’s Poetry in Ukrainian and Russian Translation: Synaesthetic Shift

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