Classical Research on Visual Imagery
What is another name for Mental imagery?
Imagery
What is cognitive maps?
The mental representation of geographic information, including a person's surrounding environment.
What is pitch?
A characteristic of a sound stimulus that can be arranged on a scale from low to high.
What is Mental imagery?
Mental imagery is the mental representation of stimuli when those stimuli are not physically present. Sensory receptors do not receive any input when a mental image is created.
Research on cognitive maps are part of what larger topic?
Spatial cognition
What is imagery debate?
An important controversy: Do mental images resemble perception (using an analog code), or do they resemble language.
What is the differences between visual imagery and auditory imagery?
Visual imagery is the mental representation of visual stimuli and auditory imagery is when the sounds are not physically present.
What is Spatial cognition?
The mental processes involved in thoughts about cognitive maps, memory for the world that we navigate, and keeping track of objects in a spatial array.
What is magnetoencephalography (MEG) technique?
A procedure for recording fluctuations in the magnetic fields produced by neural activity while simultaneously providing course-grained information about the neural sources of observed effects.
What is prosopagnosia?
The inability to recognize human faces visually, though other objects may be perceived relatively normally. People with prosopagnosia also have comparable problems in creating visual imagery for faces.
What do people often use to make judgments about cognitive maps?
Heuristic
What is 90-degree-angle heuristic?
In cognitive maps, when angles in a mental map are represented as being closer to 90 degrees than they really are.
Why is spatial ability extremely important in STEM disciplines?
It is important because it helps us understand the location and dimension of objects, as well as how different objects are related by helping you visualize and manipulate objects and shapes in your head.
What is landmark effect?
In cognitive maps, people tend to provide shorter distance estimates when traveling to a landmark—an important geographical location—rather than a nonlandmark.
What is situated cognition approach?
The proposal that a person makes use of information in the immediate environment or situation; thus knowledge typically depends on the context surrounding the person.