This work began in earnest when he was at Minerva, and progressed significantly after he founded Foundry College. You can't play 20 questions with nature and win. Previous studies used the upright body position as standard procedure and therefore do not address the issue of whether mental imagery tasks are processed in accordance with ego-centered or gravitational coordinates. A recent meta-analysis characterized the types of information processing carried out by the two systems. Most recently, he has extended this work to show how psychological principles of perception, memory, and comprehension can be used to make and deliver effective PowerPoint presentations.

All rights reserved. Both enterprises have raised important questions about imagery, but have not made substantial progress in answering them. However, the idea of left brain versus right brain functions has been shown to be an oversimplification. Imagery is also characterized by its reliance...This study investigated the relationship between 3 ability-based cognitive styles (verbal deductive, spatial imagery, and object imagery) and performance on geometry problems that provided different types of clues.

The Case for Mental Imagery presents a complete and unified argument that m...Mental imagery occurs when perceptual information is accessed from memory, giving rise to the experience of "seeing with the mind's eye", "hearing with the mind's ear", and so on. In Study 1 we found that eight psychological principles are often violated in PowerPoint(®) slideshows, and are violated to similar extents across different fields - for example, academic research slideshows generally were no bet...Separate lines of research have shown that visual memory and visual mental imagery are mediated by frontal-parietal control regions and can rely on occipital-temporal sensory regions of the brain. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the necessary degree of resolution of the mental image is a determining factor in whether Area 17 is activated during imagery...Previous neuroimaging studies provided evidence that visual mental imagery relies, in part, on the primary visual cortex. Kosslyn also works on visual display design, showing how psychological principles can be used to produce displays that can be understood at a glance. The present study used a novel task to investigate the reinterpret...It has long been debated whether eye movements play a functional role in visual mental imagery. We sought to discover whether visual mental imagery could evoke Rather, I suggest here that it is better to come armed with a question that directs one to design tasks in ways that take advantage of the strengths of neuroimaging techniques (particularly...Join ResearchGate to find the people and research you need to help your work.Only verified researchers can join ResearchGate and send messages to other members.University students and faculty, institute members, and independent researchersTechnology or product developers, R&D specialists, and government or NGO employees in scientific rolesHealth care professionals, including clinical researchersJournalists, citizen scientists, or anyone interested in reading and discovering researchSorry, you need to be a researcher to join ResearchGate.Due to our privacy policy, only current members can send messages to people on ResearchGate.© 2008-2020 ResearchGate GmbH. In four experiments, we investigated a possible commonality between the two functions: We asked whethe...In two experiments, we used a temporal integration task to investigate visual mental images based on information in short-term memory or generated from information stored in long-term memory (LTM). We investigated this possibility by first classifying lies according to two dimensions, whether they fit into a coherent story and whether they were previously memorized. or also relies on depictive (picture-like) representations.