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15 - Temporal Mental Imagery

from Part II - Imagery-Based Forms of the Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2020

By
Gerardo Viera  and
Bence Nanay
Edited by
Anna Abraham
Anna Abraham
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Summary

Mental imagery is perceptual processing that is not triggered by corresponding sensory stimulation in the relevant sense modality. Temporal mental imagery is perceptual processing that is not triggered by temporally corresponding sensory stimulation in the relevant sense modality. We aim to show that temporal mental imagery plays an important role in explaining a number of diverse mental phenomena, from the thickness of temporal experience and the specious present to episodic memory and postdictive perception.

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Mental imagerytemporal experiencespecious presentepisodic memorypostdictive perceptionmultimodal mental imagery
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination , pp. 227 - 240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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