PSY 367 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Visual Memory, Fusiform Face Area, Prosopagnosia

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 367
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Concrete information is remembered better than abstract. Mental rotation task - look at the time it takes to rotate two shapes into correspondence. Linear relationship between rotation and reaction time in object comparison. The mental process seems to be analogous to the physical process of rotation. Just as in visual perception, level of detail in mental images can vary. Imagine a bee hovering next to a rabbit. Imagine an elephant standing next to a rabbit. Retrieving elements from mental models of scenes: fan effects. Fan effect - an increase in retrieval time with an increase in number of associations with a concept. People learned sentences, such as the potted palm is in the hotel. The potted palm is in the hotel. The potted palm is in the barber shop. The potted palm is in the airport. The pay phone is in the library. The waste basket is in the library. The bulletin board is in the library.