Visual Imagery

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Visual Imagery
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Mnemonics and Memory Codes

• Mnemonics
• Method of loci

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Mnemonics and Memory Codes

• Mnemonics
• Interacting images

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Mnemonics and Memory Codes

• Mnemonics
• Pegboard method

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Mnemonics and Memory Codes

• Dual-Coding Hypothesis

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Empirical Investigations

• Symbolic Distance Effect

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Empirical Investigations

• Mental Rotation

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Empirical Investigations

• Mental Rotation

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Empirical Investigations

• Scanning Images

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Nature of Mental Imagery

• Finkes Principles
• Implicit Encoding
• Perceptual Equivalence
• Spatial Equivalence
• Transformational Equivalence
• Structural Equivalence

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Nature of Mental Imagery

• Critiques
• Research Technique Problems
• Tacit Knowledge
• Demand Characteristics
• Experimenter Expectancy Effects

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Nature of Mental Imagery

• Critiques
• Picture Metaphor

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Nature of Mental Imagery

• Critiques
• Picture Metaphor

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Nature of Mental Imagery

• Critiques
• Propositional Theory

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Nature of Mental Imagery

• Critiques
• Propositional Theory

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Neuropsychological Findings

• Exp. 1 three tasks during brain imaging
• Exp. 2 creating mental images
• Exp. 3 faces vs. locations
• fusiform face area
• parohippocampal place area

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Spatial Cognition

• Cognitive Map
• Types of spatial cognition
• Space of the body
• Space around the body
• Space of navigation