Painter and scribe: From model of mind to cognitive strategy

MacKisack, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.11.018

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“…1 Recently published studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscience indicate that not all individuals have this visual-imaginary capacity; ‘aphantasia’ is a term being given to the condition of experiencing ‘a blind mind’ in this particular way. This is important because ‘visual’ language for ekphrastic experiences is prominent, yet in the first place, ‘visualization’ does not fully describe the experience of imagining other types of sensory content (for example the music metaphors we describe on pages 18–22) and in the second, individuals with aphantasia report creative use of contextual details and other types of information from descriptive texts or narratives to understand what is going on in passages requiring creation of mental imagery (see Keogh and Pearson 2018 for clinical description of this condition and MacKisack 2018 for a short history of the topic). Some critical scholars have for inclusive reasons turned to less visual, more capacious sensorial vocabulary to describe imagistic mental phenomena…”

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Creating a ‘gestalt shift’ in evolutionary science: roles for metaphor in the conceptual landscape of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)

Herrington

Jablonka

2020

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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The role of novel metaphors, analogies and figurative devices in generating new frameworks for thought and guiding new scientific discoveries has been one of Evelyn Fox Keller's important contributions to our understanding of the development of genetics in the twentieth century.Here we explore metaphors that are used in the construction of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES), a theoretical framework that is still very much in the making. The EES challenges mainstream gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' versions of evolutionary theory and calls for a development-and organism-oriented view of heredity and evolution. We show that at the current unstable and dynamic stage of its construction, the metaphors and analogies that are put forward by advocates of the EES play an important role in defining its boundaries, scope and ambitions, while the aesthetic and ambiguous aspects of these same metaphors are used by opponents to undermine the scientific value of the EES.

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Creating a ‘gestalt shift’ in evolutionary science: roles for metaphor in the conceptual landscape of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)

Herrington

Jablonka

2020

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Aphantasia: The science of visual imagery extremes

Keogh

Pearson

Zeman

2021

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

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The Eye's mind – Visual imagination, neuroscience and the humanities

Zeman

MacKisack

Onians

2018

Cortex

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The capacity to summon images to the mind's eye appears to play a major role in memory, daydreaming and fantasy as well as in creative thinking by scientists, writers and artists (Schacter & Addis, 2007;Smallwood & Schooler, 2015). Evidence from cognitive psychology supports a functional role for imagery in cognition, while cognitive neuroscience has begun to delineate the brain regions and networks that subserve it (Pearson, Naselaris, Holmes, & Kosslyn, 2015). However, its distinctive contribution to cognition has been questioned (Kosslyn, 2006), and a recent report (Zeman, Dewar, & Della Sala, 2015) has reinforced Galton's contention (Galton, 1880) that a small minority of the population -with lifelong 'aphantasia' -lack conscious visual imagery entirely. This Special Issue, was inspired by a unique interdisciplinary project and associated conference: it approaches the vibrant topic of visual imagery from a range of complementary perspectives, with contributors from cognitive and clinical psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, computer science, art and art history and literary criticism.

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Painter and scribe: From model of mind to cognitive strategy

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Creating a ‘gestalt shift’ in evolutionary science: roles for metaphor in the conceptual landscape of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)

Creating a ‘gestalt shift’ in evolutionary science: roles for metaphor in the conceptual landscape of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)

Aphantasia: The science of visual imagery extremes

The Eye's mind – Visual imagination, neuroscience and the humanities

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