TY - JOUR
AU - Pylyshyn, Zenon W.
AB - Argues that the main point of disagreement in the debate over the nature of mental imagery concerns the following: (a) whether certain aspects of the way in which images are transformed should be attributed to intrinsic knowledge-independent properties of the medium in which images are instantiated or the mechanisms by which they are processed; or (b) whether images are typically transformed in certain ways because Ss take their task to be the simulation of the act of witnessing certain real events taking place and therefore use their tacit knowledge of the imaged situation to cause the transformation to proceed as they believe it would have proceeded in reality. The tacit knowledge account is seen as more plausible because empirical results demonstrate that both "mental scanning" and "mental rotation" transformations can be critically influenced by varying the instructions given to Ss and the precise form of the task used and, that the form of the influence is explainable in terms of the semantic content of Ss' beliefs and goals. (40 ref)
TI - The imagery debate: Analogue media versus tacit knowledge
JF - Psychological Review
DO - 10.1037/0033-295X.88.1.16
DA - 1981-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/the-imagery-debate-analogue-media-versus-tacit-knowledge-AYye24uMpP
SP - 16
EP - 45
VL - 88
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -