Olfactory imagery: is exactly what it smells like.
Mental Imagery, whereby we experience aspect of a perceptual scene or perceptual object in the absence of direct sensory stimulation is ubiquitous. Often the existence of mental imagery is demonstrated by asking one's reader to volitionally generate a visual object, such as closing ones eyes and ima...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 177; no. 11; pp. 3303 - 3328 |
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