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Reasoning and the Visual-Impedance Hypothesis
- 2003
Psychology
The findings corroborate the theory that individuals rely on mental models for deductive reasoning, and that visual imagery irrelevant to reasoning impedes the process.
Spatial Reasoning: No Need for Visual Information
A dual-task experiment to explore the visual and/or spatial nature of human spatial reasoning indicates that spatial reasoning is mainly based on the construction and inspection of spatial layouts, whereas no evidence of the involvement of visual representations and processes was found.
Mental Models in Spatial Reasoning
- M. KnauffR. RauhC. SchliederG. Strube
- 1998
Psychology
This chapter gives an overview of the ongoing experimental research in the MeMoSpace project, concerning the cognitive processes underlying human spatial reasoning, and reports some findings and two new experiments on spatial relational inference, which were conducted to investigate well-known effects from relational and syllogistic reasoning.
Principles of mental imagery
- R. A. Finke
- 1989
Psychology
Imagery can be used to improve memory, perceptual skills, even creativity. Numerous experiments carried out over the past 20 years have probed the nature of mental imagery and unlocked its powers.…