Reproductive Imagination
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Reproductive imagination (also known as simple memory recall) is an activity in which previously seen objects or images are recalled from memory and reproduced in front of the mind's eye. Reproductive imagination is contrasted to productive or constructive imagination.


Neuroscience

On a neurological level, simple recall involves activation of an existing
object-encoding neuronal ensemble A neuronal ensemble is a population of nervous system cells (or cultured neurons) involved in a particular neural computation. Background The concept of neuronal ensemble dates back to the work of Charles Sherrington who described the funct ...
in the posterior cortical hot zone. According to binding-by-synchrony hypothesis synchronous resonant activity of the neuronal ensemble results in conscious perception of the object. {{cite journal , last1=Singer , first1=Wolf , title=Binding by synchrony , url=http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Binding_by_synchrony , journal=Scholarpedia , pages=1657 , language=en , doi=10.4249/scholarpedia.1657 , date=10 December 2007, volume=2 , issue=12 , bibcode=2007SchpJ...2.1657S , doi-access=free


References

Memory Imagination