PSYC1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Neurotypical, Neuroimaging, Pragmatics
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In many ways, thought is simply an extension of perception and memory. When we perceive, we form a mental representation. When we remember, we try to bring that representation to mind. When we think, we use representations to try to solve a problem or answer a question. Thinking means manipulating mental representations for a purpose. Mental images, visual representations such as the image of a street or a circle. This indicated that participants were actually mentally rotating an image of the letter to come to a conclusion (cooper, 1976; cooper & shepard, 1973). Supporting these ndings, pet studies have shown that perceiving, remembering and mentally manipulating visual scenes all involve. Object visualisation refers to the process of visually memorising and processing scenes holistically such that scenes are pictured in rich detail. Spatial visualisation refers to a heightened ability to judge distances, relative dimensions and velocities with spatial visualisers often using schematic patterns to visualise ideas.
