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Imagery and Mental Representation "Imagination is what makes our sensory experience meaningful, enabling us to interpret and make sense of it, whether from a conventional perspective or from a fresh, original, individual one. It is what makes perception more than the mere physical stimulation of sense organs. It also produces mental imagery, visual and otherwise, which is what makes it possible for us to think outside the confines of our present perceptual reality, to consider memories of the past and possibilities for the future, and to weigh alternatives against one another. Thus, imagination makes possible all our thinking about what is, what has been, and, perhaps most important, what might be" (Nigel J.T. Thomas). To the individual, conscious mental experiences like imagery are more than just an epiphenomenon but are central to being a living human being. Thus, research on mental imagery has presented a challenge for mainstream cognitive psychology by...

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