Visual Imagery

Mnemonics and Memory CodesMnemonics

Method of loci

Mnemonics and Memory CodesMnemonics

Interacting images

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Mnemonics and Memory CodesDual-Coding Hypothesis

Empirical InvestigationsSymbolic Distance Effect

Empirical InvestigationsMental Rotation

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Empirical InvestigationsMental Rotation

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Empirical InvestigationsScanning Images

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Nature of Mental ImageryFinke’s Principles

Implicit Encoding

Perceptual Equivalence

Spatial Equivalence

Transformational Equivalence

Structural Equivalence

Nature of Mental ImageryCritiques

Research Technique ProblemsTacit Knowledge

Demand Characteristics

Experimenter Expectancy Effects

Nature of Mental ImageryCritiques

Picture Metaphor

Nature of Mental ImageryCritiques

Picture Metaphor

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Nature of Mental ImageryCritiques

Propositional Theory

Nature of Mental ImageryCritiques

Propositional Theory

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Neuropsychological FindingsExp. 1: three tasks during brain imaging

Exp. 2: creating mental images

Exp. 3: faces vs. locationsfusiform face area parohippocampal place area

Spatial CognitionCognitive Map

Types of spatial cognition:Space of the body

Space around the body

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