PSYC 305L Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Long-Term Memory, Mental Rotation, Binocular Rivalry
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Chapter themes, mental images are picture like a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. a. v. Represents a direct fashion the spatial layout of the representative scene. There is a considerable overlap between imagery and perception a. ii. 1. In how each functions and also in their neural bases. People can use spatial imagery which is not visual and may instead be represented in the mind in terms of movements or perhaps in some more abstract format. Images (visual or spatial) are plainly not pictures, instead images seem to be organized and already interpreted in fashion that pictures are not. Even though images in working memory provide a distinctive form of representation, information about appearances in long term memory may not be distinctive a. v. 1. Long term memory for sensory information seems to obey all the principles we described: visual imagery, the mind"s eye a. i. Mind"s eye just refers to your visual perception and how you picture things when a stimulus reminds you of it b.
