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The hallmark of imagery, whether it is mental or externalized in some expressive medium, is that imagery is specific. It is the purpose of this paper to define a precise sense of specificity, to use this definition to redefine the issues between image and propositional theories of memory representations, and to present a report of an experiment which illustrates this approach to imagery.
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Stenning, K. (1978). On Remembering How to Get There: How We Might Want Something Like a Map. In: Lesgold, A.M., Pellegrino, J.W., Fokkema, S.D., Glaser, R. (eds) Cognitive Psychology and Instruction. Nato Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2535-2_11
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