A Hypothesis for the Use of Mental Imagery in Visual Analogy

Visual Analogy

An Example For You

Symbols Are Mapped

Depictive Representations Are Not Stored

Depictive Representations Are Not Stored (cont.)

Depictive Images Contain No Semantic Content

Depictive Representations Are Useless In Analogy

Primates Have Depictive Representations

Depictive Representations in Humans

My Problem

A Problem That Could Use Depictive Representations

My Solution

How Does It Work?

Going Deeper

Emergent Visual Properties

Proposed Experiment: Easy Condition

A Proposed Experiment: Hard Condition

Predictions:

Conclusions

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