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| A type of mental imagery involving vision, in which an image is experienced int eh absence of a visual stimulus. |
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| Experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input. |
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| The debate about whether thought is possible in the absence of images. |
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| Paired-associate learning |
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| A learning task in which participants are first presented with pairs of words, then one word of each pair is presented and the task is to recall the other word. |
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| Conceptual Peg Hypothesis |
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| A hypothesis associated with Pavlov's dual coding theory, that states that concrete nouns create images that other words can hang onto, which enhances memory for these words. |
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| A process of mental imagery in which a person scans a mental image in his or her mind. |
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| The debate about whether imagery is based on spatial mechanisms, such as those involved in perception, or on propositional mechanisms that are related to language. |
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| A representation in which different parts of an image can be described as corresponding to specific locations in space. |
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A phenomenon that accompanies a mechanism but is not actually part of the mechanism.
Ex. Lights that flash on the mainframe computer as it operates. |
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| Propositional Representation |
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| A representation in which relationships are represented by symbols, as when the words of language represent objects and the relationships between objects. |
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| Corresponds to spatial representation. So called because a spatial representation can be depicted by a picture. |
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| Tacit Knowledge Explanation |
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| An explanation proposed to account for the results of some imagery experiments that states that participants unconsciously use the knowledge about the world in making their judgments. This explanation has been used as one of the arguments against describing imagery as a depictive or spatial representation. |
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| A task used in imagery experiments in which participants are ask to form a mental image of an object and to imagine that they are walking toward |
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| A type of category specific neuron that is activated by imagery. |
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| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) |
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| A procedure in which magnetic pulses are applied to the skill in order to temporarily disrupt the functioning of part of the brain. |
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| A problem caused by brain damage, usually to the right parietal lobes, in which the patient ignores objects in the left half of his or her visual field. |
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| A method for remembering things in which the things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout. |
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| A method for remembering things in which the things to be remembered are associated with concrete words. |
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