abd3fg t1_izio58b wrote on December 9, 2022 at 11:46 AM

As far as I have read - pretty much the same brain regions are used when seeing and visualizing an object - source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926641004000709

Whether you could think about the cube and not trigger visualizing it is questionable as far as I know. Anyways, there is no need to jump into conclusions yet, there is still a lot to learn about how the human mind works.

trey3rd OP t1_izjlgld wrote on December 9, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Interesting, thanks so much! I'm betting trying to get the relationship between all three of those was what was throwing off my searches. Appreciate ya!

Aurora9279 t1_izztnth wrote on December 13, 2022 at 1:27 AM

I'm late to the party but it's not completely clear as stated beforehand. There was a huge debate in the nineties about it, the so called imagery debate: Is imagery similar to our perception (symbolic approach) or amodal, more language like (propositional approach). The symbolic approach states that both perception and imagery use the same brain regions (e.g. visual cortex) and is part of the embodied cognition approach. The propositional approach instead states that they use different strategies and brain regions for imagery and perception.

I'm sorry that I can't write more, but if you're interested in googling, the most influential scientists were Kosslyn and Pylyshyn.