Inspecting visual mental images: Can people “see” implicit properties as easily in imagery and perception?
Can people “see” previously unnoticed properties in objects that they visualize, or are they locked into the organization of the pattern that was encoded during perception? To answer this question, we first asked a group to describe letters of the alphabet and found that some properties (such as the...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 1024 - 1033 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
July 2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=510826603&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 510826603 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: July 2008 vid: 36 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. artinfo: ui: 510826603 10.3758/MC.36.5.1024 ppf: 1024 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: T tig: atl: Inspecting visual mental images: Can people “see” implicit properties as easily in imagery and perception? aug: au: Thompson, William L. Kosslyn, Stephen M. Hoffman, Michael S. Kooij, Katinka van der su: Errors Reaction time Visual perception Mental imagery sug: subj: Errors Reaction time Visual perception Mental imagery ab: Can people “see” previously unnoticed properties in objects that they visualize, or are they locked into the organization of the pattern that was encoded during perception? To answer this question, we first asked a group to describe letters of the alphabet and found that some properties (such as the presence of a diagonal line) are often mentioned, whereas others (such as symmetry) are rarely if ever mentioned. Then we showed not only that other participants could correctly detect both kinds of properties in visualized letters, but also that the relative differences in the ease of detecting these two types of properties are highly similar in perception (when the letters are actually visible) and imagery (when the letters are merely visualized). These findings provide support for the view that images can be reinterpreted in ways much like what occurs during perception and speak to the wider issue of the long-standing debate about the format of mental images. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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