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VISUAL IMAGERY AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL PROPERTIES OF PERCEIVED STIMULI
Author(s) -
SHEEHAN PETER W.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01081.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , cognitive psychology , coding (social sciences) , stimulus (psychology) , visual perception , social psychology , neuroscience , statistics , mathematics
Seventy‐two subjects constructed blocks to indicate their perceptions and imagery of geometrical patterns which varied in their meaningfulness and stimulus complexity. It was hypothesized that vivid and poor imagers process visual information differently and that their styles of perception lead to differences in retentive behaviour. Results supported the hypothesis that vivid imagers perceive literally while poor imagers use coding devices to organize their perceptions.