Mental Imagery
True or False: perception and mental imagery use the same types of processing.
What is false. Perception uses both top-down and bottom-up processing while mental imagery relies on top-down processing only.
The dependent variable in Shepard and Metzler's study on mental rotation.
What is reaction time?
Term used for a representation that closely resembles the physical object.
What is the analog code?
Mental imagery relies exclusively on this type of processing.
What is top-down processing?
Researches have found this clear relationship between angle of rotation and reaction time.
What is people make judgements more quickly if they need to rotate a mental image just a short distance?
According to this approach mental imagery is a close relative of language, not perception.
What is the propositional-code approach?
Most of the psychological research on mental imagery has focused on this type of imagery.
What is visual imagery?
Studies show that when compared to younger people, elderly people perform this way on mental-rotation tasks.
What is more slowly?
Neuroimaging research provides a great deal of evidence for this perspective.
What is the analog perspective?
This type of ability is extremely important in the STEM disciplines.
What is spatial ability?
The studies show that right handers and left-handers compare this way on mental rotation tasks.
What is right-handers recognized a right hand faster than a left hand. In contrast, left-handers recognized right and left hands equally quickly.
Research indicates that individuals with prosopagnosia often exhibit a comparable difficulty with this aspect of visual imagery.
What is the ability to use mental imagery to distinguish between faces?
Research on mental imagery is difficult to conduct because of this reason.
What is researchers cannot directly observe mental images?
Research shows that deaf individuals who are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) are especially skilled in this mental rotation task.
What is looking at an arrangement of objects in a scene and mentally rotating that scene by 180 degrees?
According to a large number of studies, visual imagery activates about this percent of the same brain regions that are activated during visual perception.
What is about 70-90%?