PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mental Rotation, Mental Image, Polka
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Most people take a walk through their house. You are sitti(cid:374)g i(cid:374) (cid:272)lass a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e that (cid:455)ou"re at a (cid:271)ea(cid:272)h, (cid:272)al(cid:373) (cid:449)ith (cid:449)ater tou(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g (cid:455)our feet. You smell coconuts and hear the crisp morning. Some say this is mental imaging whereas others insist it has to do not with images, but abstracts of information that is already stored in our mind. Because it could be that you have never been to a beach (cid:271)efore (cid:271)ut (cid:455)ou"re i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374) the (cid:271)asis of i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:455)ou alread(cid:455) k(cid:374)e(cid:449). Mental representations of a non-present object or event. We are not seeing, smelling, or tasting it but it feels like we are. There are 2 ways to demonstrate that imagery and perception are similar events in the brain. Interference effects are when you try to form an image and if you are actually seeing or experiencing this image then interference will occur.
