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Visual imagery is not always like visual perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Martha E. Arterberry ,
Catherine Craver-Lemley  and
Adam Reeves
Martha E. Arterberry
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325 arterber@gettysburg.edu
Catherine Craver-Lemley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 lemleyce@acad.etown.edu
Adam Reeves
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 reeves@neu.edu
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Abstract

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The “Perky effect” is the interference of visual imagery with vision. Studies of this effect show that visual imagery has more than symbolic properties, but these properties differ both spatially (including “pictorially”) and temporally from those of vision. We therefore reject both the literal picture-in-the-head view and the entirely symbolic view.

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Type
Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 183 - 184
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press