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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2018
Over the past 50 years, philosophers and psychologists have perennially argued for the existence of analog mental representations of one type or another. This study critically reviews a number of these arguments as they pertain to three different types of mental representation: perceptual representations, imagery representations, and numerosity ...
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Over the past 50 years, philosophers and psychologists have perennially argued for the existence of analog mental representations of one type or another. This study critically reviews a number of these arguments as they pertain to three different types of mental representation: perceptual representations, imagery representations, and numerosity ...
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Representation of Mental Imagery Functions
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995A questionnaire was administered to 250 undergraduates to study their conceptions about the efficacy of mental images in thinking. Analysis showed that subjects rated differently the usefulness of visual imagery according to the kind of content rather than the mental process involved.
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Mental Rotation, Mental Representation, and Flat Slopes
Cognitive Psychology, 1993The "mental rotation" literature has studied how subjects determine whether two stimuli that differ in orientation have the same handedness. This literature implies that subjects perform the task by imagining the rotation of one of the stimuli to the orientation of the other. This literature has spawned several theories of mental representation.
D, Cohen, M, Kubovy
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Reducing Mental Representation?
2020Abstract This chapter evaluates whether Radical Interpretation as it has been articulated in this book can be a reduction or foundational metaphysics of mental representation. One can be worried about this from two angles: first, whether it really qualifies as foundational metaphysics; second, whether what it targets is the whole of ...
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Nonnatural Mental Representation
2020Abstract This chapter distinguishes between two types of representation, natural and nonnatural. It argues that nonnatural representation is necessary to explain intentionality. It also argues that traditional accounts of the semantic content of mental representations are insufficient to explain nonnatural representation and, therefore ...
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1997
Abstract In Mental Acts, published in 1957, P. T. Geach proposed that judgment be understood in terms of “mental utterances” in an “interior language.” Judging, he supposed, consists in the mind’s exercise of concepts, and the content of a judgment comprises a complex of Ideas which represent things in the world; his suggestion was that ...
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Abstract In Mental Acts, published in 1957, P. T. Geach proposed that judgment be understood in terms of “mental utterances” in an “interior language.” Judging, he supposed, consists in the mind’s exercise of concepts, and the content of a judgment comprises a complex of Ideas which represent things in the world; his suggestion was that ...
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Perinatal mental health: a review of progress and challenges
World Psychiatry, 2020Louise Howard, Hind Khalifeh
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