PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mental Rotation, Zenon Pylyshyn, Emanuele Luzzati
26 Jul 2018
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Powerful memory aid in comparison to static imagery. Supports the idea that observers are actually performing mental rotation on these images. Analog view mental images are useful codes in memory evidence shows we can manipulate these mental images much like we can manipulate actual objects. Propositional view: two store only abstract linguistic codes in memory, states that demand characteristics are responsible for diff. in response time in physical objects (map) vs. imaginary representations (mental image of map) Finke (1989: outlined important qualities that are inherent in visual images. Implicit/non-intentional coding: perceptual evidence, spatial equivalence, transformational equivalence, structural equivalence. Proponent of the propositional point of view: argued that many of those results can be explained by the concept of demand characterises and implicit knowledge of the world. Tated that (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374) look at a pi(cid:272)ture that (cid:455)ou(cid:859)(cid:448)e (cid:374)e(cid:448)er see(cid:374) (cid:271)efore a(cid:374)d deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e (cid:449)hat it is (cid:271)/(cid:272) i(cid:373)ages are by-products of verbal descriptions.
