Visual Imagery
This type of imagery involves forming a mental representation of stimuli that are not physically present.
What is visual imagery?
This psychologist conducted pioneering research on mental rotation in the 1970s.
Who is Roger Shepard?
Auditory imagery involves mental representations of this type of sensory stimulus.
What is sound?
A cognitive map is a mental representation of this type of space.
What is geographic space?
The imagery debate centers on whether mental images are stored as __ or __ representations.
What are analog or propositional representations?
This effect occurs when people take longer to mentally "travel" greater distances in their mental images.
What is the distance effect?
People take longer to mentally rotate an object when the rotation angle is
What is larger?
The travel time for mental navigation of musical notes is longer when these differ significantly.
What are pitch differences?
The distortion of angles in mental maps, making them closer to 90 degrees than reality, is called
What is the 90-degree-angle heuristic?
This theory argues that mental images are similar to actual pictures in the brain.
What is the analog code theory?
The ability to reinterpret a mental image to see a different figure is often difficult due to this cognitive limitation.
What is the limited capacity of visual memory?
Brain scans show that mental rotation tasks activate this brain region.
What is the parietal lobe?
The perception and mental representation of sound quality in instruments are known as
What is timbre?
This heuristic leads people to incorrectly align geographic locations in a straight line.
What is the alignment heuristic?
The opposing theory suggests that mental images are actually stored in a language-like format.
What is the propositional code theory?
Research has shown that visual images activate this percentage of the same brain regions as actual perception.
What is 70-90%?
This term describes the process of mentally turning a 3D object in space.
What is mental rotation?
This cognitive neuroscientific method has been used to study auditory imagery.
What is magnetoencephalography (MEG)?
When estimating distances on a cognitive map, people perceive landmarks as being ___ than non-landmarks.
What is closer?
Neuroscientific evidence for the imagery debate comes from studies using these types of brain scans.
What are fMRI and PET scans?
This cognitive condition affects face recognition and also impairs the ability to generate mental images of faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
Studies suggest that experience in these types of activities can improve mental rotation skills.
What are video games and spatial tasks?
Research shows that auditory imagery is less studied than visual imagery because of this challenge.
What is the difficulty of measuring internal auditory experiences?
This model explains why we process the vertical dimension more quickly than left-right dimensions in spatial cognition.
What is the spatial framework model?
This scientist is a major proponent of the analog code theory.
Who is Stephen Kosslyn?