PSY 654 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Cognitive Psychology PSY 654 Ryerson University

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Process of reinstating a state of perception of a remembered, yet absent, object. ears. Retrieving subtle spatial or perceptual information from memory. Understanding descriptions (e. g. , form a mental model) Aristotle: thought is impossible without an image . Wundt: images as one of 3 elements of consciousness . Decide if 2 views show same object or different objects. Matching pairs: relationship between angle of rotation and rt. Mental scanning (e. g. , kosslyn, ball, & reiser, 1973) Imaging across greater distances or more manipulations takes longer. Support for mental images as depictive forms of representation. Pylyshyn: spatial experience is an epiphenomenon; representations are propositional/ symbolic. If behavioural nding are ambiguous what other type of evidence could help determine if. Participants: epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in medial-temporal cortex. Both visual perception and imagery give rise to activation in primary visual cortex! Hypothesis: perception is multi-sensory, imagery is purely visual. Found that non-visual areas (auditory processing were deactivated during imagery.

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