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PSC100 Chapter 3.3
Term | Definition |
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mental imagery | ability of the mind to construct images without immediate input from the environment |
aphantasia | an inability to engage in mental imagery |
mental rotation | ability of the mind to compare and match rotated images |
depictive | referring to the view that the brain creates representations of mental images the same way it creates real images perceived through the eyes |
propositional | view that mental images are help in a post-perceptual, abstract way, more like a linguistic description than a picture |
mental scanning | process of moving from one point in a mental image to another |
epiphenomenon | phenomenon that occurs together with a process of interest but is not central for its function |
topographic | referring to a feature of the OCCIPITAL cortex, where items adjacent in a visual space are represented by neurons that are close to each other in the cortex |
spatial neglect | following a brain injury, the failure to process stimuli on one side of the visual field |