Abstract
When remembering events from one’s life, one often visualises the remembered scene as one originally experienced it: from an ‘internal’, ‘own-eyes’, ‘first-person’, or ‘field’ perspective. Sometimes, however, one sees oneself in the remembered scene: from an ‘external’, ‘third-person’, or ‘observer’ perspective (Nigro and Neisser 1983).
The authors would like to thank Jack Reynolds and Richard Sebold for helpful and insightful comments on previous drafts.
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McCarroll, C.J., Sutton, J. (2016). Multiperspectival Imagery: Sartre and Cognitive Theory on Point of View in Remembering and Imagining. In: Reynolds, J., Sebold, R. (eds) Phenomenology and Science. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51605-3_10
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