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born 1948 United States

Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born 1948) is an American psychologist, neuroscientist, Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute), author and educator who specializes in the fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

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Also known as: Stephen M. Kosslyn

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Physics seems to have done reasonably well in studying electrons, although there is not to this day a precise definition of this term.

Bullets are a convenient way to present the separate elements of a list. However, bullets are a bit like salt—often essential to bring out the best, but distasteful if overdone.

Resist the temptation to use special effects. Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.

It is hard to define something one knows little about

A mental image occurs when a representation of the type created during the initial phases of perception is present but the stimulus is not actually being perceived; such representations preserve the perceptible properties of the stimulus and ultimately give rise to the subjective experience of perception.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Kosslyn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.