Lesson 5: Visual Imagery

Question 1

Shepard and Metzler Rotation Studyed2hw

Answer 1

The more you have to rotate something the longer it takes to determine it’s accurate position

Question 2

Spatial Correspondence (Imagery + Perception)

Answer 2

Mental scanning = participants create mental images of something they saw in their minds and are asked questions about it

Question 3

Kosslyn’s Map Study

Answer 3

Longer to mentally travel to somewhere far than somewhere close in your mind with eye’s closed (same with finger on map)

Question 4

Pylyshyn

Answer 4

Imagery is propositional (represented by abstract symbols)
- Explains Kosslyn’s study by saying it’s tacit-knowledge (subconsciously know whats to happen so you purposely take longer)

Question 5

Propositional
Spatial

Answer 5

“The cat is under the table”
Picture of cat literally under table

Question 6

Imagery and Perception (Relationship between viewing details and perceptions)

Answer 6

View things as big = close and can see distinct features easily, but when we view things as far it’s harder to see detail and zoom in mentally

Question 7

Perky Wall study

Answer 7

Asked people to visualize things as they flashed them on the wall and no one noticed projections but it influenced what they visualized
- Imagery and Perception have access to the same mechanisms

Question 8

Priming

Answer 8

More likely to get flash study correct when it matches because you’ve been primed with the visual image

Question 9

Imagery in the Brain

Answer 9

Imagery neurons respond to perceiving and imagining an object
- VIsual cortex + overlap in brain activation

Question 10

Aphantasia

Answer 10

Cannot see images in your mind and aphantasia supports both debates in imagery