Resumen de La imagen mental situada en un entorno o contexto dinámico
José de Jesús Padua Gabriel, Mario Casanueva López
Mental image (MI) is an operational synthesis of a dynamic mental environment or context. A dynamic mental context is the imbrications of various psychological capacities operating simultaneously within a situation. Every dynamic mental context is formed by two constituent networks: structuring and dynamics. The structuring network is in turn divided into phenomenology and meaning. The former is the way MI emerges; what it looks like. It consists in intentionality, composition, perspective and a dominant modality (from where it is named). Meaning consists in a network of concepts (that can be propositional and non-propositional, or modal if preferred. While we share Barsalou’s position on modal concepts, that is not discussed here) that support the semantics of MI.
The dynamic network refers to the flow of psychological activity, in general, and to one of its components, precisely the MI. Operational mechanisms manifest several types of narratives, including splice points, analogy, consequential, random and combined thinking. The validity of this synthesis may also be subsumed to simulation rules causally suggested by the dynamic mental context itself. The operational synthesis of these two networks is a MI, which is named according to its dominant modality (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).
