Imagery

Question 1

Kosslyn 1973

Answer 1

Boat experiment, imagery is spatial

Question 2

Spaitial vs. propositional

Answer 2

propositional(Plyshyln): code like language that represents a string of concepts and their relations to each other

-participants use nodes to represent different areas of the boat, longer distances=crossing more nodes

Question 3

Relationship between viewing distance and detail

Answer 3

things further away look smaller, things closer up are more detailed and bigger

Question 4

Neurons during perceiving and imagining an object

Answer 4

pereception and imagery use the same neurons to perceive and imagine the object no matter what the object was

Question 5

aphantasia is not due to

Answer 5

metacognition, it is due to lack of intact imagery

Question 6

there is overlap in perception and imagery but also dissociations