# Stephen Kosslyn **Domain:** Cognitive Neuroscience / Visual Imagery / Perception **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** perception, mental imagery, [[World Modeling]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **Stephen Kosslyn** is a cognitive scientist and psychologist known for work on visual mental imagery, perception and computational accounts of cognition. ## Corpus Context Kosslyn’s work belongs to the representational question: how internal models preserve spatial and perceptual structure, and how imagined scenes relate to the mechanisms used in seeing. ## Team Leela Context He appears in [[Team Leela]] as an analytic intellectual intersection. ## Backlinks [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]] ## Sources / Provenance - [Harvard Psychology — Stephen Kosslyn](https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/stephen-m-kosslyn)