Individual Differences in visual imagery and spatial ability

Poltrock, Steven E.; Brown, Polly

doi:10.1016/0160-2896(84)90019-9

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“…The interaction between gender and specialization was significant only for Z spat for older college students. The effect sizes Brunn, Cave, & Wallach, 1984;Poltrock & Brown, 1984). Overall, these data suggest not only an object-spatial dissociation in individual differences, but also a trade-off between object and spatial visualization abilities.…”

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Trade-off in object versus spatial visualization abilities: Restriction in the development of visual-processing resources

Kozhevnikov

Blazhenkova

Becker

2010

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Trade-off in object versus spatial visualization abilities: Restriction in the development of visual-processing resources

Kozhevnikov

Blazhenkova

Becker

2010

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…According to Ekstrom, French, and Harman (1976), the PFT measures spatial visualization ability, which reflects the ability to apprehend, encode, and mentally manipulate abstract spatial forms (Lohman, 1988). Researchers (e.g., Poltrock & Agnoli, 1986;Poltrock & Brown, 1984) have shown that scores on tests of spatial visualization ability are related to how well people can rotate and integrate imaged forms and, essentially, are not re-lated to participants' ability to generate vivid or detailed visual images. The participants were administered Part I of the PFT, which consists of 10 items.…”

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Spatial versus object visualizers: A new characterization of visual cognitive style

2005

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The visual system processes object properties (such as shape and color) and spatial properties (such as location and spatial relations) in distinct systems, and neuropsychological evidence reveals that mental imagery respects this distinction. The findings reported in this article demonstrate that verbalizers typically perform at an intermediate level on imagery tasks, whereas visualizers can be divided into two groups. Specifically, scores on spatial and object imagery tasks, along with a visualizer-verbalizer cognitive style questionnaire, identified a group of visualizers who scored poorly on spatial imagery tasks but excelled on object imagery tasks. In contrast, a second group of visualizers scored high on spatial imagery tasks but poorly on object imagery tasks. The results also indicate that object visualizers encode and process images holistically, as a single perceptual unit, whereas spatial visualizers generate and process images analytically, part by part. In addition, we found that scientists and engineers excel in spatial imagery and prefer spatial strategies, whereas visual artists excel in object imagery and prefer object-based strategies.

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“…several self-report tests of visual imagery. In the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (Marks, 1972(Marks, , 1973Richardson, 1994), participants generate images of four scenes; for each scene, they image four components and rate their vividness (Poltrock & Brown, 1984). He received a score of 5 for four questions because he was unable to generate a visual image of a relative or friend (even when asked about specific relatives).…”

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Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study

et al. 2005

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Amnesia typically results from trauma to the medial temporal regions that coordinate activation among the disparate areas of cortex that represent the information that make up autobiographical memories. We proposed that amnesia should also result from damage to these regions, particularly regions that subserve long-term visual memory [Rubin, D. C., & Greenberg, D. L. (1998). Visual memory-deficit amnesia: A distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 95, 5413-5416]. We previously found 11 such cases in the literature, and all 11 had amnesia. We now present a detailed investigation of one of these patients. M.S. suffers from long-term visual memory loss along with some semantic deficits; he also manifests a severe retrograde amnesia and moderate anterograde amnesia. The presentation of his amnesia differs from that of the typical medial-temporal or lateral-temporal amnesic; we suggest that his visual deficits may be contributing to his autobiographical amnesia.

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Individual Differences in visual imagery and spatial ability

Cited by 143 publications

References 27 publications

Trade-off in object versus spatial visualization abilities: Restriction in the development of visual-processing resources

Trade-off in object versus spatial visualization abilities: Restriction in the development of visual-processing resources

Spatial versus object visualizers: A new characterization of visual cognitive style

Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study

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