The Image Channel While image commonly refers to visual representation, I use it more generally to refer to all types of external sense impressions, which originally come from stimuli that arise from outside the body and that we have also incorporated into the brain as sense memory. These external (“special”) senses include sight, taste, smell, hearing and the tactile sense.‡ Counter to common parlance, I use the same word—Image—to categorize all of these external senses. Indeed, the I in the SIBAM model could refer, equally, to any of the externally generated Impressions (i.e., visual,
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