... system (Kosslyn, Pinker, Smith, and Shwartz, 1979), that images are a representation of something stored in our memory. It has also been suggested that the images actually use stages of the post-retina visual system in the same way that we see any real images of the world (Finke, 1980). This theory claims that we really do see quasi-pictorial (Kosslyn, 1980) images, though any idea that they are likened to 'mental photographs' has been long rejected. Those that claim that these images are not visualised in any pictorial way refer to the theory of descriptionalism, supported primarily by Pylyshyn (1973, 1981, 2003) and Dennett (1969) suggest that images are stored as ordered lists of features, or a network of links; we know elephants are grey, they are large, they have a consistent set of features, and this is what we are referring to when we 'picture' images. These theories draw their ...

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