Imagination

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Free recall and organization as a function of varying relational encoding in action memory.

A new approach was taken to study the question whether the free recall advantage of enacting actions (SPT), over only listening to their verbal descriptions (VT), is due to better relational encoding of SPTs than of VTs. The approach consisted of ...
Johannes Engelkamp, Hubert D Zimmer (Psychol Res, 200205)
free-recall-organization-function-varying-relational-encoding-action.asp

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Bridging psychology and biology. The analysis of individuals in groups.

Biological systems are particularly prone to variation, and the authors argue that such variation must be regarded as important data in its own right. The authors describe a method in which individual differences are studied within the framework of a ...
Stephen M Kosslyn, John T Cacioppo, Richard J Davidson, Kenneth Hugdahl, William R Lovallo, David Spiegel, Robert Rose (Am Psychol, 200205)
bridging-psychology-biology-analysis-individuals-groups.asp

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Perception of two-body center of mass.

Participants estimated the perceptual center of mass between two horizontally oriented black dots varying in size and distance. Experiment 1 showed that estimates, measured as distance from the larger dots center, decreased with an increase in size ratio ...
Jay Friedenberg, Bruce Liby (Percept Psychophys, 200205)
perception-two-body-center-mass.asp

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Switching imagined viewpoints: the effects of viewing angle and layout size.

The study examined the cognitive processes involved in switching from familiar to novel points of observation. Participants studied a single view of a small (table-top model) or large (laboratory) spatial display that was presented from a horizontal or ...
Michael Tlauka (Br J Psychol, 200205)
switching-imagined-viewpoints-effects-viewing-angle-layout-size.asp

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Mental imagery: in search of a theory.

It is generally accepted that there is something special about reasoning by using mental images. The question of how it is special, however, has never been satisfactorily spelled out, despite more than thirty years of research in the post-behaviorist ...
Zenon W Pylyshyn (Behav Brain Sci, 200204)
mental-imagery-search-theory.asp

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PET studies on the memory processing of word pairs in bilingual Finnish-English subjects.

This study examined the fundamental question whether verbal memory processing in two unrelated languages is mediated by a common neural system or by distinct cortical areas. Ten right-handed, male Finnish--English adult late bilinguals who had acquired ...
U Halsband, B J Krause, H Sipilä, M Teräs, A Laihinen (Behav Brain Res, 200204)
pet-studies-memory-processing-word-pairs-bilingual-finnish-english.asp

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The Spanish version of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire: factor structure and internal consistency reliability.

We examined the factor structure and internal consistency reliability of the Spanish version of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire which was applied to a sample of 850 secondary school students. Factor structure investigated by principal ...
Alfredo Campos, María Angeles Gonzalez, Angeles Amor (Psychol Rep, 200204)
spanish-version-vividness-visual-imagery-questionnaire-factor.asp

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Imagined and actual arm movements have similar durations when performed under different conditions of direction and mass.

Several experiments have suggested that similar physiological substrates are involved in movement execution and motor imagery, and that the same laws of movement control apply to both processes. Using a mental chronometry paradigm, we examined the ...
Charalambos Papaxanthis, Marco Schieppati, Rodolphe Gentili, Thierry Pozzo (Exp Brain Res, 200204)
imagined-actual-arm-movements-similar-durations-performed-under.asp

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Object recognition and object orientation in Alzheimers disease.

There are a wide variety of neuropsychological deficits in Alzheimers disease (AD), among which are disorders of visual perception and spatial cognition. The present study investigated the ability of 20 mildly to moderately deteriorated patients with AD ...
F Caterini, S Della Sala, H Spinnler, C Stangalino, O H Tumbull (Neuropsychology, 200204)
object-recognition-object-orientation-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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The bizarreness effect and individual differences in imaging ability.

The bizarreness effect refers to the superior performance in recall of bizarre sentences as compared to common sentences. The subjects studied each target word and in Exp. 1 rated its congruity with its sentence frame. In Exp. 2 they rated the vividness ...
Hiroshi Toyota (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
bizarreness-effect-individual-differences-imaging-ability.asp