Stephen M Kosslyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 220782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen M Kosslyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosslyn |
| SIGNATURE | KOSSLYN S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5122-7186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Minerva: The Intentional University
Minerva University is a pioneering educational institution established in 2012 with the goal of redefining liberal arts education for the twenty-first century. Addressing widespread concerns about the effectiveness of traditional higher education, Minerva adopts first principles thinking in its pedagogy, emphasizing practical knowledge, active learning, and global exposure. The curriculum is constructed around two distinct types of learning objec…
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Searchable, and Linkable Reference for the 21st Century
Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical research that has reshaped our understanding of mental imagery. Research supports the claim that visual mental imagery is a depictive internal representation that functions like a weak form of perception. Brain imaging work has demonstrated that neural representations of ment…
The Pleasures and Pains of Social Interactions: The Cutting Edges
Imagining predictions: Mental imagery as mental emulation
We argue that the primary function of mental imagery is to allow us to generate specific predictions based upon past experience. All imagery allows us to answer ‘what if’ questions by making explicit and accessible the likely consequences of being in a specific situation or performing a specific action. Imagery is also characterized by its reliance on perceptual representations and activation of perceptual brain systems. We use this conception of…
Crime Alert: How Thinking About a Single Suspect Automatically Shifts Stereotypes Toward an Entire Group
Crime alerts are meant to raise community awareness and identify individual criminal suspects; they are not expected to affect attitudes and beliefs toward the social group to which an individual suspect belongs. However, psychological principles of learning, categorization, and memory predict that what is learned about an instance can color perception of an entire category. At the intersection of psychology, criminal justice, sociology, and medi…
Memory and Mind: A Festschrift for Gordon H. Bower
The Case for Mental Imagery
Preface Chapter 1. Mental imagery and mental representation Chapter 2. Evaluating propositional accounts Chapter 3. Evaluating experiment artifact accounts Chapter 4. Depictive representations in the brain Chapter 5. Visual mental images in the brain: Overview of a theory Chapter 6. Science and mental imager Appendix: Review of neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery References
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of Mind (Bradford Books)
When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery
Although many neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery have revealed activation in early visual cortex (Areas 17 or 18), many others have not. The authors review this literature and compare how well 3 models explain the disparate results. Each study was coded 1 or 0, indicating whether activation in early visual cortex was observed, and sets of variables associated with each model were fit to the observed results using logistic regression an…
The Languages of the Brain
Bridging psychology and biology: The analysis of individuals in groups
Biological systems are particularly prone to variation, and the authors argue that such variation must be regarded as important data in its own right. The authors describe a method in which individual differences are studied within the framework of a general theory of the population as a whole and illustrate how this method can be used to address three types of issues: the nature of the mechanisms that give rise to a specific ability, such as men…
Bridging psychology and biology: The analysis of individuals in groups
Neural foundations of imagery
Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution …
Imagery in Minds and Poems
Image and Mind
1. A Research Program 2. The Debate about Imagery 3. Validating the Privileged Properties of Imagery 4. The Origins of Images 5. The Core Theory 6. Generating Visual Images 7. Inspecting Visual Images 8. Transforming Visual Images 9. Using Visual Images to Answer Questions 10. Imagery and Cognitive Development 11. Imagery in Perspective 12. Reflections and Refutations References Index
Semantic retrieval in children and adults
When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery
Although many neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery have revealed activation in early visual cortex (Areas 17 or 18), many others have not. The authors review this literature and compare how well 3 models explain the disparate results. Each study was coded 1 or 0, indicating whether activation in early visual cortex was observed, and sets of variables associated with each model were fit to the observed results using logistic regression an…
Minerva: The Intentional University
Minerva University is a pioneering educational institution established in 2012 with the goal of redefining liberal arts education for the twenty-first century. Addressing widespread concerns about the effectiveness of traditional higher education, Minerva adopts first principles thinking in its pedagogy, emphasizing practical knowledge, active learning, and global exposure. The curriculum is constructed around two distinct types of learning objec…
Crime Alert: How Thinking About a Single Suspect Automatically Shifts Stereotypes Toward an Entire Group
Crime alerts are meant to raise community awareness and identify individual criminal suspects; they are not expected to affect attitudes and beliefs toward the social group to which an individual suspect belongs. However, psychological principles of learning, categorization, and memory predict that what is learned about an instance can color perception of an entire category. At the intersection of psychology, criminal justice, sociology, and medi…
Image and Mind
1. A Research Program 2. The Debate about Imagery 3. Validating the Privileged Properties of Imagery 4. The Origins of Images 5. The Core Theory 6. Generating Visual Images 7. Inspecting Visual Images 8. Transforming Visual Images 9. Using Visual Images to Answer Questions 10. Imagery and Cognitive Development 11. Imagery in Perspective 12. Reflections and Refutations References Index
Semantic retrieval in children and adults
Imagery in Minds and Poems
Semantic retrieval in children and adults
Image and Mind
1. A Research Program 2. The Debate about Imagery 3. Validating the Privileged Properties of Imagery 4. The Origins of Images 5. The Core Theory 6. Generating Visual Images 7. Inspecting Visual Images 8. Transforming Visual Images 9. Using Visual Images to Answer Questions 10. Imagery and Cognitive Development 11. Imagery in Perspective 12. Reflections and Refutations References Index
Imagery in Minds and Poems
Image And Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution …
Neural foundations of imagery
The Languages of the Brain
Bridging psychology and biology: The analysis of individuals in groups
Biological systems are particularly prone to variation, and the authors argue that such variation must be regarded as important data in its own right. The authors describe a method in which individual differences are studied within the framework of a general theory of the population as a whole and illustrate how this method can be used to address three types of issues: the nature of the mechanisms that give rise to a specific ability, such as men…
Bridging psychology and biology: The analysis of individuals in groups
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of Mind (Bradford Books)
When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery
Although many neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery have revealed activation in early visual cortex (Areas 17 or 18), many others have not. The authors review this literature and compare how well 3 models explain the disparate results. Each study was coded 1 or 0, indicating whether activation in early visual cortex was observed, and sets of variables associated with each model were fit to the observed results using logistic regression an…
The Case for Mental Imagery
Preface Chapter 1. Mental imagery and mental representation Chapter 2. Evaluating propositional accounts Chapter 3. Evaluating experiment artifact accounts Chapter 4. Depictive representations in the brain Chapter 5. Visual mental images in the brain: Overview of a theory Chapter 6. Science and mental imager Appendix: Review of neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery References
Memory and Mind: A Festschrift for Gordon H. Bower
Crime Alert: How Thinking About a Single Suspect Automatically Shifts Stereotypes Toward an Entire Group
Crime alerts are meant to raise community awareness and identify individual criminal suspects; they are not expected to affect attitudes and beliefs toward the social group to which an individual suspect belongs. However, psychological principles of learning, categorization, and memory predict that what is learned about an instance can color perception of an entire category. At the intersection of psychology, criminal justice, sociology, and medi…
Imagining predictions: Mental imagery as mental emulation
We argue that the primary function of mental imagery is to allow us to generate specific predictions based upon past experience. All imagery allows us to answer ‘what if’ questions by making explicit and accessible the likely consequences of being in a specific situation or performing a specific action. Imagery is also characterized by its reliance on perceptual representations and activation of perceptual brain systems. We use this conception of…
The Pleasures and Pains of Social Interactions: The Cutting Edges
Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical research that has reshaped our understanding of mental imagery. Research supports the claim that visual mental imagery is a depictive internal representation that functions like a weak form of perception. Brain imaging work has demonstrated that neural representations of ment…
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Searchable, and Linkable Reference for the 21st Century
Minerva: The Intentional University
Minerva University is a pioneering educational institution established in 2012 with the goal of redefining liberal arts education for the twenty-first century. Addressing widespread concerns about the effectiveness of traditional higher education, Minerva adopts first principles thinking in its pedagogy, emphasizing practical knowledge, active learning, and global exposure. The curriculum is constructed around two distinct types of learning objec…
Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Neuroscience (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Mental image (6 works) · Perception (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (4 works) · Neuroimaging (4 works)