The cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery

The cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery.

This special issue is devoted to recent work on mental imagery. To get a sense for the subject matter, answer the following questions: How many windows are there in your living room? What socks did you wear yesterday? Is there room in your refrigerator for a litre of milk? These questions typically evoke visual mental imagery. For example, when answering the first, people usually visualize the ...

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century

Extending Cognitive Architectures with Mental Imagery

Inspired by mental imagery, we present results of extending a symbolic cognitive architecture (Soar) with general computational mechanisms to support reasoning with symbolic, quantitative spatial, and visual depictive representations. Our primary goal is to achieve new capabilities by combining and manipulating these representations using specialized processing units specific to a modality but ...

28. Embodied Mental Imagery in Cognitive Robots

This chapter is focused on discussing the concept of mental imagery as a fundamental cognitive capability to enhance the performance of cognitive robots. Indeed, the emphasis will be on the embodied imagery mechanisms applied to build artificial cognitive models of motor imagery and mental simulation to control complex behaviors of humanoid platforms, which represent the artificial body. With t...

Mental Imagery in a Graphical Cognitive Architecture

Can mental imagery be incorporated uniformly into a cognitive architecture by leveraging the mixed (relational and probabilistic) hybrid (discrete and continuous) processing supported by factor graphs? This article takes an initial step towards answering this question via an implementation in a graphical cognitive architecture of a version of the Eight Puzzle based on a hybrid function represen...