Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

A knowledge representation scheme for computationed imagery has previously been proposed. This scheme incorporates three interrelated representations: a long-term memory descriptive representation and two working memory representations, corresponding to the distinct visual and spatial components of mental imagery. It also includes a set of primitive functions for reconstructing and reasoning with image representations. In this paper we suggest that the representation scheme addresses the controversy involved in the imagery debate by providing the computational tools for specifying, implementing euid testing edternative theories of mental imagery. This capability is illustrated by considering the representation and processing issues involved in the mental rotation task.