ABSTRACT
Clearly, the just-mentioned studies of memory in the neurosciences reveal the close correspondence between imagery and perception. This revelation is significant because it prepares us to understand the form in which memory preserves the perceptual information from the afferent signals and the way it can subsequently retrieve this information. One of the most glaring misunderstandings in some psychological and philosophical studies of memory is the notion, which appears to be popular nowadays, that “The apparently stable objects of memory—the representations of the things being recalled—are not retrieved from some Store-house of Ideas where they have been waiting intact, but rather are constructed on the fly by a computational process.” And further: “What we recall is not what we actually experienced, but rather a reconstruction of what we experienced that is consistent with our current goals and our knowledge of the world” (Westbury and Dennett, 19). Another example of this notion is that
