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chapter 10
visual imagery
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| imageless thought debate | concerns whether thinking can occur without imagery |
| concrete nouns | physical things |
| abstract nouns | concepts, ideas |
| conceptual peg hypothesis | concrete nouns create images that other words can hang onto |
| mental rotation | imagining that you're turning a toy in your head |
| Kosslyn’s studies | takes participants longer to find parts that are located farther from the initial point of focus |
| spatial representations | different parts of an image can be described as corresponding to specific location in space |
| propositional representations | relationships can be represented by abstract symbols such as an equation or a statements |
| Effect of size in visual imagery | the size of something in your imagination can make it easier or harder to "see" clearly in your mind. Bigger things are easier to picture than tiny things! |
| imagery neurons | respond to both perception and visual imagery of specific objects |
| unilateral neglect | damage to one hemisphere do not attend to the opposite side of the visual field |
| aphantasia | lack of ability for visual imagery |
| eidetic imagery | exceptional ability for visual imagery |