Sequential Processes in Image Generation: An Objective Measure.
Abstract
Are visual mental images of objects created a part at a time? This paper reports an new objective technique that was developed to answer questions such as this one. The results of using this technique indicated that images of upper case letters are formed segment by segment, in roughly the order in which most people draw the letters. These results were shown not to be artifact of how people scan over images once they are formed, and could not have been due to experimenter-expectancy effects. In addition, the results indicated that subjective estimates of mental image generation time are quite close to those obtained using objective measures. Keywords: Imagery; Computational models; Mental Representation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 31, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA161200
Entities
People
- Carolyn B. Cave
- David A. Provost
- Stephen M. Kosslyn
Organizations
- Harvard University