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Abstract

Mental imagery was central to concepts of thinking in antiquity and early philosophy, as it was in the experiments and theories of last century's experimental psychologists. Under the influence of radical behaviorisrn imagery was reduced to a marginal role,
but during the last two decades cognitive psychologists have again made it a topic of study. For neuropsychology imagery is interesting in its own right, hecause of its role in memory processes, and because of similarities to perception. A comprehensive theory of mental imagery (Kosslyn) has opened the way for componential analyses of cerebral processing in visual imagery, and studies of imagery representation in the brain are now possible.