PSYB57H3 Lecture : Lect8 Notes **Supplement with Ch8 Textbook Notes

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Lecture 8 visual imagery and spatial cognition. Visual imagery and memory: visual imagery: picturing events in your mind i. e. when a friend is recounting a story to you and you visualize the storyline in your mind. Concrete nouns are dual coded whereas abstract nouns are only coded. First noun acts as conceptual peg on which the second is hooked. Structural equivalence: images have a coherent structure, are well. 10. organized and can be reorganized and reinterpreted i. e. kosslyn et al. (1983): generating images depend on complexity; it takes longer to construct a complex detailed image than one with less detail. Analog position (picture metaphor theory): visual code is used that closely. 11. resembles the original state of affairs; visual images are pictures in the head . Propositional position: visual imagery uses a symbolic code; visual images. Are areas involved in imagery the same as the brain areas involved in.

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