Susan Aldworth

On Picturing a Candle: The Prehistory of Imagery Science.

Frontiers in Psychology 2016 Matthew MacKisack, Susan Aldworth, Fiona Macpherson et al.

The past 25 years have seen a rapid growth of knowledge about brain mechanisms involved in visual mental imagery. These advances have largely been made independently of the long history of philosophical - and even psychological - reckoning with imagery and its parent concept 'imagination'. We suggest that the view from these empirical findings can be widened by an appreciation of imagination's...