PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mental Rotation, Image Scanner

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Blind individuals produce response times proportional to the distance traveled in the image. Blind participants are proportional to the amount of rotation needed, just as with participants who have normal vision. Some other way of thinking about spatial layout and spatial relations. Spatial imagery represented in the mind in terms of a series of imagined movements body imagery/motion imagery, not visual. Spatial imagery part of our broader cognition about spatial arrangements and layout. Used by blind individuals to carry out tasks. Relies on different brain areas than vision. Damage to visual areas won"t interfere with this form of imagery. Damage to brain sites needed for this imagery won"t interfere with vision. Relies on brain areas also needed for vision. Damage to these areas disrupts both imagery and vision. Suffered brain damage difficulty in tasks requiring judgments about visual appearance. Performed well on tasks like image scanning or mental rotation.