Comments on: Distinguishing Imagery and Perception http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/ Pete Mandik's Intermittently Neurophilosophical Weblog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:57:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Eric Steinhart http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-487403 Eric Steinhart Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:20:19 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-487403 I love the blue bananas. I just bought a dozen BLUE ROSES! Yay! Very, very disturbing. Like Duchamp used to make.... I love the blue bananas. I just bought a dozen BLUE ROSES! Yay! Very, very disturbing. Like Duchamp used to make….

]]> By: Eric Thomson http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-480727 Eric Thomson Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:53:59 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-480727 It would be useful to know the methods they used to suupport that it was hard to distinguish imagined X from faded images of X. If it holds up, it's an incredible result. It would be useful to know the methods they used to suupport that it was hard to distinguish imagined X from faded images of X. If it holds up, it’s an incredible result.

]]> By: Anibal http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-474313 Anibal Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:34:23 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-474313 In more recent times, Stephen Kosslyn reviews the relevant literature wich says that percieving and imagining stimulates the same neurons: <a href="http://www.fmri.org/pdfs/Kosslyn2001.pdf" rel="nofollow">The Neural Foundations of Mental Imagery</a> In more recent times, Stephen Kosslyn reviews the relevant literature wich says that percieving and imagining stimulates the same neurons: The Neural Foundations of Mental Imagery

]]> By: Pete Mandik http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-472685 Pete Mandik Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:09:46 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-472685 Ahh, Perky! That's the ticket. Thanks, everybody. Ahh, Perky! That’s the ticket. Thanks, everybody.

]]> By: Jason Zarri http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-472683 Jason Zarri Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:56:38 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-472683 A little googling yielded this: Perky, C.W. 1910. “An Experimental Study of Imagination.” American Journal of Psychology 21: 422-52. I hope it's the one you're looking for. A little googling yielded this:

Perky, C.W. 1910. “An Experimental Study of Imagination.” American Journal of Psychology 21: 422-52.

I hope it’s the one you’re looking for.

]]> By: djc http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-472682 djc Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:56:10 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-472682 Perky... Perky…

]]> By: John Macready http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/comment-page-1/#comment-472659 John Macready Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:54:43 +0000 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2008/12/17/distinguishing-imagery-and-perception/#comment-472659 This sounds like a study that I recently used in my essay "Painting the Other in Me: The Role of Imagination in Tolerance and Intolerance" (see my blog http://therelativeabsolute.blogspot.com/) The study appears in the article: Slusher, Morgan P. and Craig A. Anderson. "When Reality Monitoring Fails: The Role of Imagination in Stereotype Maintenance." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 52, No. 4, (1987), 653-662. The study demonstrates that subjects imaginally confirmed as "real" what was not observed in the images presented. This sounds like a study that I recently used in my essay “Painting the Other in Me: The Role of Imagination in Tolerance and Intolerance” (see my blog http://therelativeabsolute.blogspot.com/) The study appears in the article: Slusher, Morgan P. and Craig A. Anderson. “When Reality Monitoring Fails: The Role of Imagination in Stereotype Maintenance.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 52, No. 4, (1987), 653-662. The study demonstrates that subjects imaginally confirmed as “real” what was not observed in the images presented.

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