General
Representation of a sensory experience in the absence of external stimuli. It involves accessing information stored in the long term memory to produce representations of past experiences or imagined scenarios.
Mental imagery.
Mental representation of a visual stimuli.
Visual imagery
In this study, they found that by involving "hands on" experience the motor cortex of the brain gets activated during mental imagery tasks.
Kosslyn et al.(2001)
It is the process in which we make interpret and understand sensory information received from the environment.
Perception
This skill is especially important for tasks like rearranging the rooms in your house.
Spatial visualization
In this research, participants were asked to create a visual image of a clock. This research suggests that people engage in a mental imagery process that closely resembles the actual visual experience.
Paivio (1978)
These individuals rely heavily on visual imagery and spatial rotation skills due to their visual communication methods.
Deaf community
This skill is very important for tasks like driving a car, walking through the city, or playing sports.
Spatial perception
Proposed that people sometimes store pictures as descriptions.
Reed (1974)
This approach suggests that mental imagery involves a direct simulation of sensory experiences in the mind.
Analog approach
Visualizing and mentally manipulating objects without physically interacting with them.
Mental rotation
This research suggests that a mental image interferes with perception of a physical stimulus when in the same sensory mode.
Segal and Fusella (1970)
This approach suggests than mental imagery involves the manipulation of abstract cognitive representations rather than the simulation of sensory experiences.
Propositional approach
Some people tend to perform more slowly than others on mental-rotation tasks. Which population does this refer to?
Elderly people.
They suggested that it is easy to reverse an image while you are looking at an ambiguous physical image, but reversing a mental image is difficult.
Chambers and Reinsberg (1985)