Explaining mental imagery: now you see it, now you don't Reply to Kosslyn et al. 

@article{Pylyshyn2003ExplainingMI,
  title={Explaining mental imagery: now you see it, now you don't Reply to Kosslyn et al.
},
  author={Zenon W. Pylyshyn},
  journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  year={2003},
  volume={7},
  pages={111-112}
}
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  • Published 1 March 2003
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  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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    Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • 2002
It is claimed that when such questions as whether images are depictive or spatial are formulated more clearly, the evidence does not provide support for the picture-theory over a symbol-structure theory of mental imagery, and whether recent neuroscience evidence clarifies the debate over the nature of mental images is considered.

What the Mind’s Eye Tells the Mind’s Brain: A Critique of Mental Imagery

This paper presents a critique of contemporary research which uses the notion of a mental image as a theoretical construct to describe one form of memory representation. It is argued that an adequate…

Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think

In Seeing and Visualizing, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn examines…

Topographical representations of mental images in primary visual cortex

Findings resolve a debate in the literature about whether imagery activates early visual cortex and indicate that visual mental imagery involves 'depictive' representations, not solely language-like descriptions12–14.

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This commentary focuses on four major points: (1) “Tacit knowledge” is not a complete explanation for imagery phenomena, if it is an explanation at all. (2) Similarities and dissimilarities between…

Computation and cognition - toward a foundation for cognitive science

In Computation and Cognition, Pylyshyn argues that computation must not be viewed as just a convenient metaphor for mental activity, but as a literal empirical hypothesis, which must face a number of serious challenges.

Neural Systems Activated during Visual Mental Imagery: A Review and Meta-Analyses

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