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Mental images: Specific or general, personal or impersonal?
Author(s) -
Helstrup Tore,
Cornoldi Cesare,
Debeni Rossana
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00027
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , mental image , relation (database) , image (mathematics) , cognitive psychology , personal computer , artificial intelligence , computer science , cognition , database , neuroscience , computer hardware
In three experiments the relation between visual images classified in terms of the four categories of personal, impersonal, specific, and general images was explored. The results showed that subjects were able to generate all types of images, with personal images being the easiest to recall. Personal images, together with general images, were the image types being easiest to integrate with one another. Overall, the observations suggested the existence of two imagery dimensions: specific‐general, and personal‐impersonal. Memory was found to be best for personal images. Personal images turned out to be easier to integrate in memory than specific images. The findings were discussed in terms of different image generation models.