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Filled-in sensations: The primordial species of imagery?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Kevin Sauvé
Kevin Sauvé
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Center for Neuromagnetism, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016 ksauve@cnm1.med.nyu.edu
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Abstract

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Filled-in sensations exhibit a distinctive mélange of causal features, resembling perceptual sensations in some respects and imagery in others. This commentary identifies several of these shared causal features and advances the hypothesis that filled-in sensations may constitute the primordial species of imagery, the evolutionary neurofunctional precursor of paradigmatic forms of imagery.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 771 - 772
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press