Three conditions were considered: (1) visual perception: looking at slides of four paintings characterizing four different periods in the history of the Fine arts (Bean-festival by Jordeans, a charcoal-etching by Rembrandt, a portrait by Holbein, and an abstract figure by Kandinksy), (2) mental imagery: mental imagination of these paintings shown before, and (3) rest: resting with eyes opened.
Our results confirm that strong verbalizers use mental speech as a form of mental imagination more strongly than weak verbalizers.
A more general question which has received less attention in philosophical discussions of the imagination concerns the relation between mental imagery (or sensory imagination) and imagination more generally.
Afterimages and phosphenes are phenomenologically quite different from the mental imagery of memory and imagination, and they seem not to bear intentionality (and so, unlike mental images, they do not function as mental representations), and they are not subject to direct voluntary control.
During experience: the brain activity is triggered by an unpleasant taste; during observation: by the sight of disgusted facial expression; and during imagination: by vivid mental imagery triggered by written scripts.
Zeman et al. (2010) have reported a case of so-called "blind imagination" in which a patient who reported abrupt cessation of subjective mental imagery was still able to perform normally on many standard imagery measures.
We tested the model on three tasks – salience-based object recognition, imagination-based object recognition and object imagination – and achieved very good results showing, as a proof of concept, that perceptual actions are a viable candidate for grounding the visuospatial mental concepts as well as the credible substrate of visuospatial mental imagery.
Admission is, of course, competitive: Applicants must possess "intellectual talent, mental discipline, and imagination". One might imagine, getting to the basics, that good looks would be a more reliable ticket into Worthington.
The DMN reduces its activity with an external stimulation and behavioral task and increases with perceived mental states as imagination, internal dialogue, and others.
After all, German philosopher Immanuel Kant thought that a good work of art makes our mental faculties – perception, imagination and understanding – resonate.
While the transfer has not been confirmed, Valdano was happy to talk about the 18-year-old, saying: "He is very talented, he has technical capability, imagination, mental coolness - which is something unusual to see in such young players".
