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Write an essay on mental scanning. What do you conclude on the basis of this research? The vast majority of people, if instructed, could claim to visualise an elephant. Its colour, its shape and size, even detailed features; but how? Our apparent ability to produce mental images is not easy to explain, and their existence has been disputed for years; theorists suggest that these 'pictures' are merely ordered lists of features, and that no real pictorial images exist in the brain. This essay focuses on one approach to explore mental image: mental scanning. Investigating this shift of attention from one aspect of the image to another can tell us much about the nature of what we claim to be able to 'see' in our minds. The theories surrounding the concept of scanning mental images are varied. The theory of pictorialism is supported primarily by Kosslyn (1980) and Fodor (1975) uses...

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