Imagery Theory In Literature. Imagery draws on the five senses namely the details of taste touch sight smell and sound imagery can also pertain to details about movement or a sense of a body in motion. In search of a theory.
We performed an extensive literature search and discovered in total 47 studies from 33 peer. A theory of the nature of imagery was clearly needed. With morris and hampson 1983 i take there to be three types of imagery theory extant in the cognitive science literature.
Lemley reeves 1992.
A theory of the nature of imagery was clearly needed. I shall refer to them as description theory picture theory and perceptual activity or pa theory. To re cap imagery is descriptive language that appeals to one or more of our senses. However we might better.