Chapter 10 Visual Imagery

Flashcards related to the concept of visual imagery, its definitions, experiments, and related cognitive processes.

Visual Imagery

The mental representation of things that can be visualized in the absence of the actual objects.

Mental Imagery

A broad term that describes experiencing sensory impressions in the absence of sensory input, encompassing various types of imagery including visual.

Paired-Associate Learning

A technique showing that concrete nouns are easier to remember than abstract nouns, by presenting pairs of words to recall.

Conceptual Peg Hypothesis

The idea that concrete words create tangible mental images that facilitate recall.

Mental Chronometry

The measure of the time taken to carry out various cognitive tasks, often used to study imagery.

Kosslyn's Mental Scanning

An experiment demonstrating that longer distances to scan mental images correlate with longer response times.

Imagery Neurons

Neurons that activate in response to specific images, which also fire when imagining those same images.

Topographical Map of the Visual Cortex

The organized structure of the visual cortex where specific locations correspond to specific visual stimuli.

Visual Agnosia

An impairment in recognizing objects that occurs while the ability to draw from memory remains intact.

Epiphenomenon

A secondary effect or byproduct that accompanies a process but is not essential to it.