Mental Imagery

Bence Nanay is currently BOF Research Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and worked at Syracuse University as a professor before moving to Europe. He is the Director of the European Network for Sensory Research. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on the philosophy and psychology of perception. His work is supported by a large number of high-profile grants, including a two-million-Euro grant from the European Research Council. He also won the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation for his work on perception.

• Foreword Part 1 Mental imagery 1: Mental imagery in psychology and neuroscience 2: Mental imagery in philosophy 3: Varieties of mental imagery 4: Unconscious mental imagery 5: The unity of mental imagery 6: The content of mental imagery Part II Perception 7: Mental imagery in perception 8: Amodal completion 9: Perception/mental imagery mixed cases 10: Attention and mental imagery 11: Top-down influences on perception and mental imagery 12: Temporal mental imagery Part III Multimodal perception 13: Multimodal mental imagery 14: Sense modalities in mental imagery 15: Sensory substitution and echolocation 16: Synesthesia 17: Pain 18: Object files Part IV Cognition 19: Language 20: Memory 21: Boundary extension 22: Mental imagery versus imagination 23: Emotion 24: Knowledge Part V Action 25: Desire 26: Pragmatic mental imagery 27: Motor imagery and action 28: Cognitive dissonance 29: Implicit bias 30: Clinical applications of mental imagery Part VI Appendix 31: Mental imagery in art Afterword