May 23, 2025Alexander A Sulfaro1 citation
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A typical mental image is not clearly visible, nor invisible, but instead has an ethereal, near-indescribable appearance. This article attempts to define specifically what this phenomenology seems to entail. Here, mental images are proposed to involve only quasi-sensory experiences of thought content, without experiencing basic visual features of that content. Quasi-sensory experiences are...
Mental imagery is a process by which thoughts become experienced with sensory characteristics. Yet, it is not clear why mental images appear diminished compared to veridical images, nor how mental images are phenomenologically distinct from hallucinations, another type of non-veridical sensory experience. Current evidence suggests that imagination and veridical perception share neural...