Boundary extension as mental imagery

Analysis 81 (4):647-656 (2022)
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Abstract

When we remember a scene, the scene’s boundaries are wider than the boundaries of the scene we saw. This phenomenon is called boundary extension. The most important philosophical question about boundary extension is whether it is a form of perceptual adjustment or adjustment during memory encoding. The aim of this paper is to propose a third explanatory scheme, according to which the extended boundary of the original scene is represented by means of mental imagery. And given the similarities between perception and mental imagery, the memory system encodes both the part of the scene that is represented perceptually and the part of the scene that is represented by means of mental imagery.

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original Nanay, Bence (2021) "Boundary extension as mental imagery". Analysis 81(3):647-656

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Bence Nanay
University of Antwerp