Mental Imagery
This term refers to mental representations that resemble physical objects.
What is analog code?
These two researchers conducted a famous experiment using 3D objects to study mental rotation.
Who are Shepard and Metzler?
This mental process involves mentally turning a map to match your orientation.
What is the alignment heuristic?
This is the smallest unit of sound in a language.
What is a phoneme?
This brain region is critical for speech production.
What is Broca’s area?
This classic study tested how long it takes to scan across a mental image.
What is Kosslyn’s island study?
This happens to reaction time as the degree of rotation increases.
What is it increases?
This heuristic causes people to mentally straighten roads or borders.
What is the rotation heuristic?
This is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is a morpheme?
This brain region is essential for understanding spoken language.
What is Wernicke’s area?
This debate questions whether mental imagery is more picture-like or word-based.
What is the analog vs. propositional code debate?
This type of mental task involves imagining an object turning in space.
What is mental rotation?
This error occurs when people assume more 90-degree angles in their maps than actually exist.
What is the right-angle bias?
These are the grammatical rules that guide sentence structure.
What is syntax?
This term describes a language impairment typically caused by brain injury.
What is aphasia?