Exam 10: Visual Imagery

Trinh is a famous chef. Since she does not like to share her secret family recipes, she does not write down her special creations, which makes it difficult to remember their ingredients. To aid her memory, she has created a unique "mental walk" that she takes to recall each recipe. For each one, she has a familiar "route" she can imagine walking through (e.g., from the end of her driveway to her living room) where she places each item in the recipe somewhere along the way (e.g., fish sauce splattered on the front door). By doing so, Trinh is using ___________ to organize her memories.

What is the consensus on neural overlap in perception and imagery? Provide descriptions of at least two research efforts to support your answer.

Compare and contrast spatial and propositional representation. Give an example of each based on the same stimulus.

Ganis and coworkers (2004) used fMRI to measure brain activation for perception and imagery of objects. Their results showed that

Kosslyn concluded that the image field is limited in size. This conclusion was drawn from the ___________ experiment.

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex

Describe in detail two techniques that use imagery to improve memory. Explain the underlying principles that define why imagery works successfully as a memory enhancer.

Kosslyn's island experiment used the ___________ procedure.

A mental rotation task is focused on the ________ aspect of imagery.

What is likely to occur if a person sustains damage to the parietal lobe of the brain?

Which type of research employed a "train on perception, test on perception" method to demonstrate imagery/perception overlap?

Mental imagery involves

Leaving a footprint in the wet sand-with a deep indentation for the heel, a rise for the arch, and each toe clearly identified-is similar to which concept?

Mental scanning experiments found

The key difference between depictive representation and propositional representation is based on which of the following?

Outline a multivoxel pattern analysis experiment that you would use to explore overlaps in perception and imagery. Be sure to note key concepts of this method in your response.

Imagery neurons respond to

Describe the paper folding test and explain how it is useful for measuring a person's spatial imagery capacity.

"Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT

Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because