Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Imagery in the History of Psychology • 271 Just as auditory imagery has played an important role in the creative process of musi ...

272 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery ways to measure behavior that could be used to infer cognitive processes. One example of a metho ...

Imagery and Perception: Do They Share the Same Mechanisms? • 273 perception matches the layout of the actual stimulus. This idea ...

274 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery such as those involved in perception, or is based on mechanisms related to language, called prop ...

Imagery and Perception: Do They Share the Same Mechanisms? • 275 showing the cat and the table that could be represented in a pi ...

276 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery to counter the tacit knowledge explanation of Kosslyn’s mental scanning results, Ronald Finke an ...

Imagery and Perception: Do They Share the Same Mechanisms? • 277 were standing close enough to the larger ani- mal so that it fi ...

278 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery Modern researchers have replicated Perky’s result (see Craver-Lemley & Reeves, 1992; Segal & ...

Imagery and the Brain • 279 Is imagery just a “laboratory phenomenon,” or does it occur in real life? Make a list of the import ...

280 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery BRAIN IMAGING Beginning in the early 1990s, a large number of brain imaging experiments were car ...

Imagery and the Brain • 281 receiving area, where signals from the retina fi rst reach the cortex. Thus, there is almost complet ...

282 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery METHOD Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) One way to investigate whether an area of the bra ...

Imagery and the Brain • 283 operation, M.G.S. felt she was about 15 feet from an imaginary horse before its image overfl owed. B ...

284 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery a “fencer’s mask” (the tennis racquet), and a “rose twig with thorns” (the asparagus). These res ...

Imagery and the Brain • 285 Based on this explanation, we can hypothesize that C.K.’s diffi culty in perceiving is caused by dam ...

286 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery Using Imagery to Improve Memory It is clear that imagery can play an important role in memory. B ...

Something to Consider • 287 fl oor, and to represent the NCIS TV show that I want to watch later tonight, I could imagine one of ...

288 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery How did you solve these problems? One approach to solving mechanical problems is to use mental s ...

CHAPTER SUMMARY therefore, is an effective way to solve mechanical problems, but is not the only way. In fact, there is evidence ...

290 • CHAPTER 10 Visual Imagery Think ABOUT IT Look at an object for a minute; then look away, create a mental image of it, and ...