Reproductive imagination (also known as simple memory recall) is an activity in which previously seen objects or images are recalled from memory and reproduced in front of the mind's eye. Reproductive imagination is contrasted to productive or constructive imagination.

Neuroscience

On a neurological level, simple recall involves activation of an existing object-encoding neuronal ensemble in the

posterior cortical hot zone The term posterior cortical hot zone was coined by Christof Koch and colleagues to describe the part of the neocortex closely associated with the minimal neural substrate essential for conscious perception. The posterior cortical hot zone include ...

. According to binding-by-synchrony hypothesis synchronous resonant activity of the neuronal ensemble results in conscious perception of the object. {{cite journal , last1=Singer , first1=Wolf , title=Binding by synchrony , url=http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Binding_by_synchrony , journal=Scholarpedia , pages=1657 , language=en , doi=10.4249/scholarpedia.1657 , date=10 December 2007, volume=2 , issue=12 , bibcode=2007SchpJ...2.1657S , doi-access=free

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Memory Imagination