NSCS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spinach, Motorboat, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
6 Sep 2016
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What is darker: boiled spinach or fresh lettuce. We visualize these items in order to answer the question. The faster and more accurate is the answer. The less your brain area 17 (v1) is activated. E. g. imagine a mouse the size of an elephant. Silica rocks are harder than carbonate rocks, granite is silica and marble is carbonate. No mental image was needed to picture this question because hardness is not something you can visualize. Answer yes on the basis of what we know, no mental image needed. Sometimes, but not always, we use internal (mental) images to: Which one is more powerful: a motorcycle engine or a fighter jet engine. Parts of a sentence are not parts of what the sentence represents. Free adjunction of surface and deep properties, concrete and abstract. Parts of a figure of an object are parts of that object. There"s no way of representing the absence of something.
