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Visual mental imagery and visual perception: Structural equivalence revealed by scanning processes
- Source :
- Memory and Cognition, Memory and Cognition, Springer Verlag, 2008, 36 (4), pp.849-862. ⟨10.3758/MC.36.4.849⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2008.
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Abstract
- The research reported in the present article investigates whether information is represented the same way in both visual mental imagery and the early phases of visual perception. In Experiment 1, the same participants scanned over patterns of dots in a mental image (with images based on a just-seen pattern), during perception, and in an iconic image. The time to scan increasing distances increased at comparable rates in the three tasks. However, in Experiment 2, when mental images were created from information stored in long-term memory, participants scanned more slowly in the mental image condition. Nevertheless, the rates of scanning in the perceptual tasks were highly correlated with the rates of scanning in the imagery tasks in both experiments. The results provide evidence that mental images and perceived stimuli are represented similarly and can be processed in the same way.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Visual perception
media_common.quotation_subject
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental psychology
[SCCO]Cognitive science
Mental Processes
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Perception
Reaction Time
Humans
Equivalence (measure theory)
Evoked Potentials
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
media_common
Visual search
Long-term memory
[SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience
Cognition
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology
Imagination
Visual Perception
Female
Psychology
Mental image
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0090502X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Memory and Cognition, Memory and Cognition, Springer Verlag, 2008, 36 (4), pp.849-862. ⟨10.3758/MC.36.4.849⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4985caa3671876751887a17f1b18a0aa