| Description |
vii,168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cognitive psychology, 1368-4558 |
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Cognitive psychology (Hove, England)
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| Contents |
1. Introduction. Conceptualising imagery. Investigating imagery. Imagery and the brain. Is imagery a right-hemisphere function? -- 2. Imagery as a phenomenal experience. Galton's "breakfast-table questionnaire" Betts's Questionnaire upon Mental Imagery. Marks's Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. Gordon's Test of Visual Imagery Control. The role of imagery in cognition. The loss of mental imagery. Brain activity during imagery -- 3. Imagery as an internal representation. Tests of spatial ability. The manipulation of mental imagery. Mental comparisons. Visuo-spatial working memory. Image and Mind. Images and propositions. Imagery and the brain. Imagery in "split-brain" patients. Imagery in unilateral neglect. Image and Brain -- 4. Imagery as a stimulus attribute. Imageability. Concreteness. Imageability and hemispheric asymmetries. Imageability effects and brain dysfunction. Dual coding or dual processing? -- 5. Imagery as a mnemonic strategy. Visualisers and verbalisers. Visualisers, verbalisers, and hemispheric asymmetry. Cognitive styles and memory strategies. Reported mediators in associative learning. Mental imagery as a mediating device. The effects of imagery instructions. Imagery and verbal instructions. Interactive and separative instructions. Dual coding or dual processing? Imagery instructions and brain function -- 6. Conclusions. Imagery as a phenomenal experience. Imagery as an internal representation. Imagery as a stimulus attribute. Imagery as a mnemonic strategy. Imagery and the brain |
| Summary |
"This advanced undergraduate textbook structures and integrates the vast amount of research on imagery under four headings: imagery as a personal or phenomenal experience, imagery as a mental representation, imagery as a property or attribute of materials, and imagery as a cognitive process that is under strategic control." "A major part of the discussion under each of these headings concerns the ways in which the structures, mechanisms, and processes in the brain mediate our subjective experience of imagery and our observable behaviour when we make use of it in cognitive tasks."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Inlcudes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Imagery (Psychology)
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Imagination.
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| LC no. |
99187241 |
| ISBN |
0863778429 |
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0863778437 (paperback) |
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