Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment to generating pictures in our minds from verbal descriptions of scenes or people. The book also considers the important theme of how individuals differ in their ability to use imagery. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive science and cognitive neuropsychology.
List of contributors ix Preface. Imagery, language, and visuo-spatial thinking: E pluribus unum xi Robert H. Logie Michel Denis The generation, maintenance, and transformation of visuo-spatial mental images 1(28) David Pearson Rossana De Beni Cesare Cornoldi Introduction 1(1) Image generation and the format of long-term memory information 2(1) The image medium: Visuo-spatial working memory or a visual buffer? 3(4) Image generation 7(1) Types of mental images 8(1) Properties of the mental image 9(1) Image maintenance 10(3) Mental rotation and mental scanning 13(3) Size and colour transformations 16(1) Mental synthesis 17(5) Conclusions 22(1) References 23(6) Individual differences in visuo-spatial working memory 29(30) Tomaso Vecchi Louise H. Phillips Cesare Cornoldi The notion of VSWM 29(9) The study of individual differences in VSWM 38(12) Conclusions 50(1) References 51(8) Pictures in memory: The role of visual-imaginal information 59(22) Johannes Engelkamp Hubert D. Zimmer Manuel de Vega Introduction 59(1) A brief review of developments until 1990 60(2) Neglected findings supporting the sensory--conceptual distinction 62(9) Theoretical integration: The case for a multi-system multi-process approach 71(5) Conclusion 76(1) Acknowledgements 77(1) References 77(4) The processing of visuo-spatial information: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging investigations 81(28) Oliver H. Turnbull Michel Denis Emmanuel Mellet Olivier Ghaem David P. Carey Two cortical visual systems 83(4) Object recognition 87(6) Visuo-spatial imagery 93(9) Conclusions 102(1) References 102(7) The interface between language and visuo-spatial representations 109(28) Manuel de Vega Marguerite Cocude Michel Denis Maria Jose Rodrigo Hubert D. Zimmer Introduction 109(5) Framework studies 114(9) Visuo-spatial images constructed from verbal descriptions 123(9) Concluding remarks 132(1) References 133(4) Language, spatial cognition, and navigation 137(24) Michel Denis Marie-Paule Daniel Sylvie Fontaine Francesca Pazzaglia Introduction 137(2) Language, wayfinding, and navigational aids 139(2) Characteristics of spatial language in describing routes 141(8) The content and structure of route directions 149(4) Testing efficacy of directions by measures of navigational performance 153(4) Conclusion 157(1) References 157(4) Actions, mental actions, and working memory 161(24) Robert H. Logie Johannes Engelkamp Doris Dehn Susan Rudkin The visual cache and inner scribe of working memory 162(1) Mental paths and physical actions 163(3) Visuo-spatial representation, imagery, and mental actions 166(3) Memory, actions, and action descriptions 169(7) Actions and working memory: The inner scribe? 176(3) Conclusion 179(1) References 179(6) Author index 185(8) Subject index 193
Denis, Michel; Logie, Robert; Cornoldo, Cesare; de Vega, Manuel; EngelKamp, Johannes
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