Mental Imagery

A mental image is a term used in philosophy and communication studies to describe the representation of an idea in a person's mind. According to some biologists and anthropologists, the ability to form and recall mental images, to learn about the world from them, and to communicate to others about them is unique to the human species, while others claim to have found evidence of this capacity in other species. This debate in the biological sciences is generally ignored in modern and historical philosophy, which tends to focus on human cognition.