Imagery Books

New and Published Books

1. Thinking Visually

   By Stephen K. Reed

   Language is a marvelous tool for communication, but it is greatly overrated as a tool for thought. This volume documents the many ways pictures, visual images, and spatial metaphors influence our thinking. It discusses both classic and recent research that support the view that visual thinking...

   Published January 18th 2010 by Psychology Press
2. Neuroimaging of Mental Imagery

   A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   Edited by Michel Denis, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Emmanuel Mellet

   Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive but elusive phenomenon continues to motivate a...

   Published October 6th 2004 by Psychology Press
3. Mental Imagery and Memory in Psychopathology

   A Special Issue of Memory

   Edited by Emily A. Holmes, Ann Hackmann

   Series: Special Issues of Memory

   Intrusive mental images in the form of flashbacks have long been recognised as a hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, clinicians have become increasingly aware that distressing imagery is a more pervasive phenomenon. There appears to be a powerful link between imagery and...

   Published July 7th 2004 by Psychology Press
4. Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking

   Edited by Michel Denis, Robert Logie, Cesare Cornoldo, Manuel de Vega, Johannes EngelKamp

   Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

   Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment to generating pictures in our minds from...

   Published December 20th 2000 by Psychology Press
5. Imagery in Working Memory and Mental Discovery

   A Special Issue of the European Cognitive Psychology

   By Tore Helstrup, Robert H. Logie

   Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   The topic of mental imagery has reached a stage of considerable maturity with a large published literature and a wide range of experimental paradigms now available. In recent years there has been a growing interest in uses for imagery in mental discovery and in the link between imagery and...

   Published October 27th 1999 by Psychology Press
6. Imagery and Verbal Processes

   By A. Paivio

   Published September 30th 1978 by Psychology Press