PS2822 week 1 Visual Imagery

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Kosslyn
Depictive (Analog) Theory
Mental imagery resembles visual perceptions
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Pylyshyn
Propositional Theory
Mental relationships between objects are represented by symbols
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Kosslyn’s image scanning Experiment 1 (1973)
They are later are asked to focus on one part of the mental image and then decide whether another part is present or absent.

Response times slower the further the object was from initial focal point
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Perky (1910)
Subjects asked to create visual images whilst looking at a ‘blank’ screen & describe them

Real images were dimly projected onto the ‘blank’ screen – subjects were unaware
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Kreiman et al, 2000
Severe epileptics with electrodes inserted in the medial temporal lobe (hippocampus and amygdala).

Studied neuronal firing in response to actual pictures & visual images

responses were the same
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Neuropsychological
RM - perception regocnision. Unable to draw imagined images.

CK - Perceptiom, can't recognise objects in pictures.
can draw from imagery
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Mental relationships between objects are represented by symbols

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Perky (1910)

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Kreiman et al, 2000

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