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Title | ||
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Object imagery and object identification: object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects. |
Abstract | ||
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Object imagery refers to the ability to construct pictorial images of objects. Individuals with high object imagery (high-OI) produce more vivid mental images than individuals with low object imagery (low-OI), and they encode and process both mental images and visual stimuli in a more global and holistic way. In the present study, we investigated whether and how level of object imagery may affect the way in which individuals identify visual objects. High-OI and low-OI participants were asked to perform a visual identification task with spatially-filtered pictures of real objects. Each picture was presented at nine levels of filtering, starting from the most blurred (level 1: only low spatial frequencies--global configuration) and gradually adding high spatial frequencies up to the complete version (level 9: global configuration plus local and internal details). Our data showed that high-OI participants identified stimuli at a lower level of filtering than participants with low-OI, indicating that they were better able than low-OI participants to identify visual objects at lower spatial frequencies. Implications of the results and future developments are discussed. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1007/s10339-008-0203-5 | Cognitive processing |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
mental imagery object imagery visual object identification spatial frequency,mental imagery,spatial filtering,spatial frequency | Journal | 9 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 1612-4782 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| M Vannucci | 1 | 11 | 3.42 |
| Giuliana Mazzoni | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Carlo Chiorri | 3 | 13 | 3.62 |
| Lavinia Cioli | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |