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Mental imagery in memory psychophysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

William M. Petrusic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canadabill_petrusic@carleton.ca
Joseph V. Baranski
Affiliation:
Defence Research and Development Canada, 1133 Shepard Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, M3M 3B9, Canadajoe.baranski@dciem.dnd.ca

Abstract

Imagery has played an important, albeit controversial, role in the study of memory psychophysics. In this commentary we critically examine the available data bearing on whether pictorial based depictions of remembered perceptual events are activated and scanned in each of a number of different psychophysical tasks.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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