PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Eidetic Memory, Synesthesia

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Kristie Dukewich

Document Summary

*participation question: category example of concept, pdp models of semantic networks: hidden/input/output units. *mental pictures: seeing in the absence of (all sensory info & mental representation) stimulation. > using visual imagery to answer the question. *dual code theory (pavio): verbal/nonverbal code to represent both of the ideas. *verbal code: you can look up the definition of graph, or you can have abstract associated information of the graph. *abstract words like love or guilty involves only one code. *paired association test: elephant is stimulus and book is response. Same pattern when the stimulus is abstract or concrete but better performance when stimulus was concrete. *conceptual peg hypothesis: eg. paired association task: you can perform task without keep using visual imagery. Determine whether it represent same object or not. Rotating in plane require switching but in depth require 3d imagination however, no difference between reaction time. *mental scanning: participants were asked to answer about details of removed picture.