PSYC 336 Lecture 11: 11.2 - Visual Knowledge II
8 Dec 2020
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Studies that measure the amount of time a task takes. Often used as a way of examining a task"s components or as a way of examining which brain events are simultaneous with specific mental events. The pattern of what information is included depends on the mode of presentation. Description prominent features will be distinctive and strongly associated with the object benign described. Depiction size and position will determine what"s prominent and what"s not. Participants were asked to form a series of mental images and to answer yes/no questions about each. Responses to the head were quicker than those to the claws question. Results suggest that information readily available in the image follows the rules for pictures, not paragraphs. Asked to think about cats (no mention of imagery), asked the same questions. Gave quicker responses about the claws than about the head.
