PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lewis Carroll, Kim Peek, Water Bird
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Outline: functional- equivalency hypothesis and evidence, debate, how is visual imagery unlike visual perception, function of mental imagery, communication and language. Is language unique to humans: different levels of analysis of human spoken language, key features of human spoken language, biological predisposition for language, nature support and aphasia, language, thought, and reading. Experiment: mental images show similar scaling effects (kosslyn 1978). They examined how participants imagine an elephant next to a rabbit. Others imagined a rabbit next to a fly. They measured the reaction time, and determined that there was faster responses when the target is relatively large compared to other objects, slower when small. When we imagine things we scale them in a similar way with what they are in the real world. When objects are similar in size, participants imagine both objects and then compare the size of the objects in their image. Similar results to when making comparisons on actual physical objects.
