Stephen Kosslyn

"During the late 1970s and early 1980s there was vigorous debate about the nature of visual mental imagery. One position held that representations that underlie the experience of mental imagery are the…"

"It is hard to define something one knows little about"

"Bullets are a convenient way to present the separate elements of a list. However, bullets are a bit like salt—often essential to bring out the best, but distasteful if overdone."

"But because of the way in which depictions represent, there is a correspondence between parts and spatial relations of the representation and those of the object; this structural mapping, which confer…"

"Mr. Magoo Rule: Text and graphics must be easily distinguished and recognized. Don ́t make your audience members feel like the vision challenged Mr. Magoo—viewers of an electronic slideshow should not…"

"These organizational processes result in our perceptions being structured into units corresponding to objects and properties of objects. It is these larger units that may be stored and later assembled…"

"A mental image occurs when a representation of the type created during the initial phases of perception is present but the stimulus is not actually being perceived; such representations preserve the p…"

"Physics seems to have done reasonably well in studying electrons, although there is not to this day a precise definition of this term."