PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Parietal Lobe, Mental Rotation, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
10 Mar 2014
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When we think of stuff, we often have mental representations (likely to be images) of whatever we are thinking. We are capable of representing objects quite vividly in our minds without actually having physical access to these objects. Intuitively, this tells us that thought processes interact quite a bit with perceptual processes. In fact, it has been shown that similar brain regions are activated when we imagine something than when we we actually perceive something. Furthermore, eye movements, among other physical reactions, tend to resemble the perspective we would have (in the case of seeing). For instance, people move their eyes downward when they are asked to imagine flying over their house and describing it. This allows us to accomplish things when we are away from our place of interest and allows us to imagine objects and places that we have never seen.
