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Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches to Mental Imagery

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Michel Denis

    1. Centre d’Etudes de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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  2. Johannes Engelkamp

    1. Fachrichtung Psychologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

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  3. John T. E. Richardson

    1. Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series D: (ASID, volume 42)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Key Issues in Imagery Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Basic Puzzles in Imagery Research

      • Allan Paivio
      Pages 3-16

    3. A Computational Theory of the Mental Imagery Medium

      • Steven Pinker
      Pages 17-32

  3. Imaginal Coding and the Processing of Verbal Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Imagery and the Representation of Visual Information

      1. Reading Mental Images
        • Jon Michael Slack
        Pages 37-46
      2. Mental Imagery and Perception: Modularity or Functional Equivalence?
        • Manuel De Vega
        Pages 47-56
      3. Imagery and Memory
        • Ornella Andreani
        Pages 57-65

    3. The Processing of Lexical Information

      1. Stroop and Priming Effects in Naming and Categorizing Tasks Using Words and Pictures
        • Juan Mayor, Javier Sainz, Javier Gonzalez-Marques
        Pages 69-78
      2. Alternative Coding of Concepts
        • F. Alfonso Medina
        Pages 79-87
      3. Images, Predicates, and Retrieval Cues
        • Gregory V. Jones
        Pages 89-98
      4. The Importance of Age of Word Acquisition for Imageability in Word Processing
        • Anita Van Loon-Vervoorn, Miep Ham-Van Van Der Koppen
        Pages 99-107
      5. Frequency, Imagery Value, and Types of Features in Natural Categories
        • Herminia Peraita, Pilar Ferrandiz
        Pages 109-118

    4. Sentence and Text Processing

      1. Imagery and Prose Processing
        • Michel Denis
        Pages 121-132
      2. Imagery and Integrative Processing
        • Werner Wippich
        Pages 133-142
      3. Metamemory-Memory Connections and Their Development Under Imaginal Encoding Conditions
        • Silvia Mecklenbräuker
        Pages 143-152

    5. Discussion of Part 2

      1. Imagery, Memory and Prose Processing
        • Alain Desrochers
        Pages 155-164

  4. Imagery Processes in Adaptive Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Imagery Processes and Working Memory

      1. Imagery and Working Memory
        • Alan D. Baddeley
        Pages 169-180
      2. Interference Effects in the Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
        • Gerard Quinn
        Pages 181-189
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The locus of concreteness effects in memory for verbal materials has been described here in terms of the processing of shared and distinctive information. This theoretical view is consistent with a variety of findings previously taken as support for dual coding, insofar as both verbal and perceptual information may be involved in comprehending high-imagery sentences and in learning lists of concrete words. But going beyond previous accounts of imagery, this view also can provide explanations for several findings that appear contradictory to the thesis that concrete and abstract materials differ in the form of their storage in long-term memory. Although this does not rule out a role for imagery in list learning or text comprehension, it is clear that the complex processes involved in comprehension and memory for language go beyond mechanisms supplied by a theory based on the availability of modality-specific mental representations. The task now is to determine the viability of the theory in other domains. Several domains of imagery research presented at EWIC provided fertile ground for evaluating my theoretical viewpoint. Although not all provide a basis for distinguishing representational theories of imagery from the imagery as process view, there are data in several areas that are more consistent with the latter than the former. In other cases, there are at least potential sources of evidence that would allow such a distinction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre d’Etudes de Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    Michel Denis

  • Fachrichtung Psychologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Johannes Engelkamp

  • Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

    John T. E. Richardson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches to Mental Imagery

  • Editors: Michel Denis, Johannes Engelkamp, John T. E. Richardson

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series D:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1391-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3659-1Due: 29 February 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7121-5Published: 15 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1391-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-123X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 443

  • Topics: Neurology

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