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 Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself. These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes ...

Neuroscience

On a neurological level, simple recall involves activation of an existing object-encoding neuronal ensemble 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 , 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

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Memory Imagination