quiz 10 - visual imagery
what did she use to remember the name of the song
inner audition
The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery
is based on spatial or language mechanisms
in drawing conclusions about the relationship between imagery and perception, a notable difference between them is that
it is harder to manipulate mental images that perceptual
depictive representation
Corresponds to spatial representation. So called because a spatial representation can be depicted by a picture.
Carly is an interior design student. As part of her internship, she is redesigning a small kitchen for a client. She would like to expand the kitchen and add a dining area. Before creating sketches for the client, she imagines the new layout in her mind, most likely using
a depictive representation
imagery neurons respond to
an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image
mental imagery involves
experiencing a sensory impression i the absence of sensory input
The technique in which things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout is known as
method of loci
Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex
plays a causal role in both perception and imagery
The lesson to be learned from the imagery techniques for memory enhancement (for example, the pegword technique) is that these techniques work because
they showcase the fact that memory improvement requires a great deal of practice and perseverance
Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because
visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them