PSY 3120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Optical Illusion, Temporal Lobe, Fusiform Face Area
23 Apr 2016
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Epiphenomenon: a mental experience that does not have a functional role in information processing. The perception of the image is not real (we"re not actually counting the stripes on a tiger) Creates discomfort with the idea that mental images are actually perceptual in character. Mental imagery: processing of perceptual-like information in the absence of an external source. Introduction: several different regions of the brain are involved in imagery b. Participants were faster in their judgments when the geometric test array was the same as the study array c. iii. Words did not present the same face-like display; c. iii. 1. Confirmed: subjects would read left to right and linear encoding would be. Introduction faster: much of the research of mental imagery is involved in visual imagery, mental rotation: rotation of objects to mentally view different perspectives b. i. **participants would rotate one object mentally until congruent with the other object c.
