PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Food Craving, Hemispatial Neglect, Emanuele Luzzati
29 Dec 2016
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Psyco258: chapter 10: visual imagery (chapter 1) raphael walks across campus talking on the phone with susan, realizes he forgot to bring her but and can (cid:499)see(cid:499) it sitting on his desk. Definition: seeing in the absence of a visual stimulus. Mental time travel is a characteristic of episodic memory, and is often involved with visual imagery. Definition: the ability to create the sensory world in the absence of physical stimuli also occurs in senses other then vision. The ability to imagine tastes, smells, tactile experiences, and melodies of familiar songs. Orchestra conductors" use a technique called the (cid:498)inner audition(cid:499) to practice without their orchestras by imagining a musical score in their minds. This allows them to imagine both the sounds of the various instruments and their relative locations relative to the podium. Examples of visual imagery leading to scientific discovery: Kekule dreamt of a snake forming a writhing chain by having it"s head swallow its tail.
