Notes on Visual Imagery
Definition: Recreate the sensory world in mind in absense of physical stimuli.
- Usage in daily cognition
- Closely related to memory.
- We solve some cognitive task by recreating the visual scene in mind and examine the mind picture!
- Some tasks are memory about spatial some are feature memory!
- Usage in creative work
- Provides another way of thinking, other than verbal and logical induction. Intuition
Characteristics of Imagery
Is the representation spatial or propositional?
Neural Correlates of Imagery
Single neuron
Imagery neuron that response both to physical stimuli and imagining.
Neural Imaging
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Shared activation area
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Distinct activation area
TMS perturbation
Lesion and Neurological Disorder