Thinking about unobserved things {imagination, cognition} is under voluntary control and depends on physical and cultural reality. However, imagination can be about unreal, possible, untrue, incomplete, and opposite things. Imagination can be about negative statements, recursions, and contradictions [Johnson, 1987] [Morris and Hampson, 1983] [Popper and Eccles, 1977] [Sartre, 1948] [Zeki, 1992].
imagery
Imagery is under voluntary control and depends on physical and cultural reality. Making visual mental images depends on how grouping organizes information, how quickly perceptual units fade, and how quickly and how often mind can remake image. Imagery transfers from one eye to the other [Kosslyn, 1980] [Kosslyn, 1994] [Kosslyn et al., 1997] [Kosslyn et al., 2001] [Kreiman et al., 2000] [O'Craven and Kanwisher, 2000] [Sacks, 2003] [Shiekh, 1983] [Tomita et al., 1999].
People use viewer-centered coordinates in imagery.
comparison: hallucination
Hallucinations are unreal and involuntary, but imagery is under voluntary control and depends on physical and cultural reality. Imagination and hallucination differ.
comparison: reality
Compared to reality, imagination is less intense and changes more easily, voluntarily or involuntarily. They are distinguishable, because people have expectations about environment and body, but imagination has fewer constraints.
biology: brain
Premotor frontal lobe is for imagination.
biology: drug
Drugs can provide atypical imagination states.
biology: EEG
Alpha waves disappear when mental imagery begins.
factors: deafness
Deaf children use imagery instead of sound. They have same ability to solve problems.
factors: hypnosis
Imagination has no relation to hypnotizing.
factors: intelligence
Ability to use imagination is an intelligence factor. More intellectually gifted people have less vivid imagery [Galton, 1883].
factors: mnemonics
Mnemonics all use mental imagery.
factors: out-of-body experience
High imagination favors out-of-body experiences.
factors: personality
Authoritarian personality has little imagination.
factors: reporting
Reports can be about imagined things.
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