Internal and external pictures

Author(s): Currie, G.

Journal/Book: Philos Psychol. 1999; 12: Rankine Rd, Basingstoke Rg24 8Pr, Hants, England. Carfax Publishing. 429-445.

Abstract: What do pictures and mental images have in common? The contemporary tendency to reject ''mental picture'' theories of imagery suggests that the answer is: not much. We show that pictures and visual imagery have something important in common. They both contribute to mental simulations: pictures as inputs and mental images as outputs. But we reject the idea that mental images involve mental pictures, and we use simulation theory to strengthen the anti-pictorialist's case. Along the way we try to account for caricature and for some basic features of pictorial representations.

Note: Article Abell C, Flinders Univ S Australia, Sch Humanities, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, AUSTRALIA

Keyword(s): VISUAL-IMAGERY; CORTICAL BLINDNESS; MENTAL-IMAGERY; PERCEPTION; DISSOCIATION; NEGLECT; VISION

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