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Kosslyn, Stephen M. was born on November 30, 1948 in Santa Monica, California, United States. Son of S. Duke and Rhoda (Rosenberg) Kosslyn.
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Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate by Stephen M. Kosslyn (1994-06-03)
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Image and Mind by Professor Stephen M. Kosslyn (1980-10-17)
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Elements of Graph Design
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Graphs and other visual displays of information have become a pervasive part of our environment. In Elements of Graph Design , noted psychologist Stephen Kosslyn explains step-by-step how to create effective displays of quantitative data, with guidelines based on our current understanding of how the brain processes information. Unlike any other guide to designing graphs, it demonstrates clearly why certain graph formats and elements work better than others in specific situations. For those who prepare, use and interpret graphic data, Elements of Graph Design explores the crucial connections between the design, the data, and the reader. When read cover to cover or used as a hands-on working reference, it offers a wealth of advice on effectively conveying information visually.
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Ghost's in the Mind's Machine
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Image and Mind
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Are images an important means of recalling information from memory and solving problems? Or are images just display lights on the mind's computer? In Image and Mind, Stephen Kosslyn makes an impressive case for the view that images are critically involved in the life of the mind. In a series of ingenious experiments, he provides hard evidence that people can construct elaborate mental images, search them for specific information, and perform such other internal operations as mental rotation. Kosslyn demonstrates that these results are best explained by a two-tiered model in which images are stored in abstract form in long-term memory and then assembled for internal display in much the way that images on a TV screen can be created from files in a computer memory. Kosslyn shows how this model can be used to solve many of the persistent questions which have traditionally plagued theories of imagery that attempted to install imagery as the exclusive medium of mental representation. Unlike any other work on imagery, Image and Mind provides an integrated account of most of the modern empirical results from imagery research within the framework of a coherent theory. The book also introduces a host of new experimental techniques and major hypotheses to guide future research. The result is a landmark book and a major event in the study of the mind.
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Elements of Graph Design by Stephen Michael Kosslyn (1993-10-03)
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Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
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This work integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. It marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. The author reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past. Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, the author uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques.
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Ghosts in the Mind's Machine: Creating and Using Images in the Brain
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Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Bachelor in Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Stanford University, 1974.
Career
Assistant professor of Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University, 1974-1977;
associate professor of Psychology, Harvard University, 1977-1981;
research affiliate of the Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980-1994;
associate professor of Psychology, Brandeis University, 1981-1982;
professor of Psychology, Harvard University, since 1983;
co-director, James S. McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1987;
associate psychologist in neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, since 1990. Visiting assistant professor psychology University of California, Berkeley, 1976. Visiting professor psychology The Johns Hopkins University, 1982-1983, Matre de Conference, College de France, 1997-1998.
Consultant Consulting Statisticians, Inc., 1977-1983. Governor board Cognitive Science Society, 1989-1995.
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Image and Mind
( Are images an important means of recalling information ...)
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Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
(This work integrates a twenty-year research program on th...)
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Elements of Graph Design
(Graphs and other visual displays of information have beco...)
- From Learning Theory to Connectionist Theory Essays in Honor of William K. Estes, Volume 1.
- Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate by Stephen M. Kosslyn (1994-06-03)
- Image and Mind by Professor Stephen M. Kosslyn (1980-10-17)
- Ghost's in the Mind's Machine
- Elements of Graph Design by Stephen Michael Kosslyn (1993-10-03)
- Ghosts in the Mind's Machine: Creating and Using Images in the Brain
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Image and Mind
Membership
Member APA, American Psychological Society, Massachusetts Neuropsychol. Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Cognitive Science Society, Psychonomic Society, Society for Neurosci., American Academy Arts andScis.
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Married Robin S. Rosenberg, March 28, 1982. Children: Justin Lewis, David Alan, Nathaniel Soltè.
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American
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Recipient Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist award division 7 APA, 1978, Initiatives in Research award NAS, 1983, Cattell award for sabbatical leave, 1991, J-L Signoret prize Fondation Ipsen/American Academy Arts and Sciences, 1995.Recipient Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist award division 7 APA, 1978, Initiatives in Research award NAS, 1983, Cattell award for sabbatical leave, 1991, J-L Signoret prize Fondation Ipsen/American Academy Arts and Sciences, 1995.