Book contents
- Looking Ahead
- Looking Ahead
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Psychological Theories
- Chapter 4 Mind Reading
- Chapter 5 Reinforcing and Connecting
- Chapter 6 Accessing the Remainders of Mental Representations and Filling in the Gaps
- Chapter 7 Implicit Priming and Active Forecasting
- Chapter 8 Mental Shortcuts
- Chapter 9 Inferences about Others and Their Mental States
- Chapter 10 Continuous Cycles of Perceiving, Acting, and Adjusting
- Chapter 11 Event Representations of How the World Works
- Chapter 12 Moving Pictures in the Head
- Part III Mathematical Theories
- Part IV Neurobiological Theories
- Part V The Future of Prediction
- Notes
- Index
- References
Chapter 12 - Moving Pictures in the Head
Prediction Involves Mental Simulation
from Part II - Psychological Theories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2025
Book contents
- Looking Ahead
- Looking Ahead
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Psychological Theories
- Chapter 4 Mind Reading
- Chapter 5 Reinforcing and Connecting
- Chapter 6 Accessing the Remainders of Mental Representations and Filling in the Gaps
- Chapter 7 Implicit Priming and Active Forecasting
- Chapter 8 Mental Shortcuts
- Chapter 9 Inferences about Others and Their Mental States
- Chapter 10 Continuous Cycles of Perceiving, Acting, and Adjusting
- Chapter 11 Event Representations of How the World Works
- Chapter 12 Moving Pictures in the Head
- Part III Mathematical Theories
- Part IV Neurobiological Theories
- Part V The Future of Prediction
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
Mental imagery can be used to simulate imminent, distant possible, or even impossible futures. Such mental simulation enables people to explore the consequences of different actions they want to perform or the consequences of being in different kinds of situations. Predictive simulation retrieves embodied knowledge but also creates new knowledge because people can compare different simulated scenarios and draw conclusions from that.
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- Looking AheadThe New Science of the Predictive Mind, pp. 125 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
Further Reading
Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Grounded cognition. Annual Reviews of Psychology, 59, 617–645.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Keller, P. E. (2012). Mental imagery in music performance: Underlying mechanisms and potential benefits. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1252(1), 206–213.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moulton, S. T., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2009). Imagining predictions: Mental imagery as mental emulation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1521), 1273–1280.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed