Cog Ch 4: Mental Imagery

October 8, 2007

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Kelly Ford Says:
October 14th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Site 1: PET Studies Demonstration
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/users/robin/bic/bic.html

These images are really intersting. I found them to be a good resource into a real look at a PET scan image.

Tags: cog3310, PET scans, chapter4

This way I can use these tags to locate this information in a quick fashion later on.

Site 2: Superhuman – Navigation Test
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/superhuman/tests/navigation/navigation.html

This is an interesting article on a test done with men and women to determine if one is better at navigational test.

Tags: cog3310, navigation, chapter4

Using these tags will help me to sort and find this information later on for referencing.
Michele Wiesner Says:
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Site 1
Ch 4: Mental Rotation Test

http://encarta.msn.com/media_461547595/Mental_Rotation_Test.html

Review: This website provides a mental rotation test. There are only two items to rotate, but it’s a fun study break that still pertains to subject matter. The tiny explanation for the test at the bottom describes the meaning for the amount of time it takes to do the task.

Tags: NGCSU test2 studytool cog3310 psychology mentalrotate

Rational: NGCSU and psychology are filters for academic websites. Test2 and studytool are for review before Tuesday. Cog3310 is required. Mentalrotate pertains to content of website.

Site 2
Ch 4: Central Executive

http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/3/central_.htm

Review: I was a bit confused about the central executive. This website is short but explains the concept adequately. Basically, the author of the website compares Baddeley’s central executive to Shallice’s supervisory attentional system. While the explanation is short, it delivers the appropriate amount of information necessary.

Tags: test2 brain cog3310 memory centralexecutive baddeley

Rational: I’ll use the test2 tag for a study tool. Cog3310 is mandatory. Baddeley’s model of working memory contains the term central executive. Memory is the general concept of these chapters. Central executive is the concept of the website.
Amanda Patrick Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Chapter Four
Amanda’s Websites I Found

The Website I Found For Website #1: http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000282/
Brief Title: Representing the Environment in the Spatial Representation System

Review: This website refers to chapter four’s information covering egocentric representations and allocentric representations. It talks about perspectives of environmental cognition aspects. It discusses inferred versus experienced spatial relations. It also talks about allocentric spatial models and working memory. Enjoy!

Tags: Cog 3310 Psyc E2 Chp4 Spatial Representation System egocentric representations and allocentric representations

The Reasoning Behind My Tags… “ “ ‘s are used to pin point my “tag” words I used.
“Cog 3310 Psyc E2 Chp4 “These words all are used to reference the class in general so later on I can research for this link if I remember it was for this class. As well as the chapter number 4 and “e2” for exam #2.
“Spatial Representation System and egocentric representations and allocentric representations” were all used because they are highlighted areas from the article/website I found.

________________

The Website I Found For Website #2: http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000583/

Brief Title: Imagery Need Not be Blind to Fail

Review: This website talks about what Chambers and Riesburg discussed. They talked about a study that seemed to indicate differences between mental image and visual perception of the real object. It talks about the duck/rabbit visual illusion problem we have talked about in class.

Tags: Cog 3310 Psyc E2 Chp4 Chambers Riesburg Mental image Visual perception

The Reasoning Behind My Tags… “ “ ‘s are used to pin point my “tag” words I used.
“Cog 3310 Psyc E2 Chp4” These words all are used to reference the class in general so later on I can research for this link if I remember it was for this class. As well as the chapter number 4 and “e2” for exam #2.
“Chambers Riesburg Mental image Visual perception” The two men that they talk about and the names of their findings.
stacy newman Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 11:47 am
it was interesting to see that imagery was around since plato with aristotle being the first to make imagery a central concept to cognitive psychology

tags: cog3310 imagery aristotle
stacy newman Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 11:56 am
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/theories-memory.html

goes into more detail about the theory and its strong influence on psychology today

tags: dualcoding cog3310
Jennifer Collins Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
http://people.virginia.edu/~ls8j/perception/class8b.html

This site elaborates on mental rotation and the studies done by Cooper and Shepard, just like we talked about in class.

Tags: cog3310 rotation
Jennifer Collins Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~krafft/papers/2001/wayfinding/html/node33.html

This site talks about cognitive maps and how we use them in our everday lives.

Tags: cog3310 cognition maps
Wyatt Martin Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-15484651.html
This cite focuses on the role of visual imagery in the retention of information. I know it is an encyclopedia webcite but it gives a very detailed experiment with hypothesis, and conclusions of each sub experiment, to how the brain retains information when given the chance to visually study it.

TAGS: cog3310 prof_chuck memory visual_imagery
I chose these tags for the reason that broadly the cite is based on memory but specifically it is based on visual_imagery. The others are for class purposes.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ls8j/perception/class8b.html
This webcite is a very good overview of mental rotation. It also provides visual experiments for those who “like the pictures”. All-in-all, good overview…

TAGS: cog3310 memory prof_chuck mental_rotation
I chose the following tags for the reason that we are in the memory portion of our book, yet the cite itself has to do mainly with mental rotation. The other tags are for our class.
Wyatt Martin Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
cite one
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-15484651.html
This cite focuses on the role of visual imagery in the retention of information. I know it is an encyclopedia webcite but it gives a very detailed experiment with hypothesis, and conclusions of each sub experiment, to how the brain retains information when given the chance to visually study it.

TAGS: cog3310 prof_chuck memory visual_imagery
I chose these tags for the reason that broadly the cite is based on memory but specifically it is based on visual_imagery. The others are for class purposes.

cite two
http://people.virginia.edu/~ls8j/perception/class8b.html
This webcite is a very good overview of mental rotation. It also provides visual experiments for those who “like the pictures”. All-in-all, good overview…

TAGS: cog3310 memory prof_chuck mental_rotation
I chose the following tags for the reason that we are in the memory portion of our book, yet the cite itself has to do mainly with mental rotation. The other tags are for our class.
jessica boyle Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1624861

this site discusses an experiment performed on monkeys regarding their route maps, and is really pretty interesting…monkeys and virtual reality(woohoo) but at the same time gives a pretty basic explanation of route maps and knowledge representation at the same time…

cog3310 chapter4 mental-imagery knowledge representation route maps

i chose the class, chapter and overall broad topic, mental imagery to classify it into the mind, route maps becasue that is the main topic and knowledge representation because i think that is a broad enough catch all for interesting learning and cognition based topics
Glendaliz Batista Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
site #1:
http://www.ul.ie/~mearsa/9519211/newpage2.htm

This website talks about spatial intelligence and it gives you some examples of spatial tasks. I think that it can be very helpful for this chapter.

Tags: spatial intelligence, cog3310.

Using these tags will help me find this information.

Site #2:

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/superhuman/tests/navigation/navigation.html

This site shows differences in navigational ability between men and women.

Tags: Cog3310, navigation

I used cog3310 because it is required and navigation because it will help me remember it.
jessica boyle Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/78003279/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

this site is a an experiment on infants (monkeys then infants yeah) and tests their serial list recall. I reallly well done article by Rutgers University, its a little complex but could be pretty applicable for paper references or even a research methods class.

cog3310 chapter4 mental imagery serial lists knowledge representation infants experimentation
jessica boyle Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:rwILFCXHSnIJ:www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/gupta/pdf/gupta.cogsci93.isr.pdf+articulatory+loop&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=firefox-a

this site discusses whether the phonological loop is articulatory or auditory and is pretty descriptive. it also helps break the phonological loop down into understandable information

cog3310 chapter4 mental imagery knowledge representation phonological loop

i chose class, chapter, broad chapter topic represenation and imagery because it helps keep the info available in different ways of thinking and phonological loop becasue it is the direct topic at hand
Megan Veal Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Site #1 Cognitive Maps

http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~krafft/papers/2001/wayfinding/html/node33.html

Review: This is a great basic learning tool that describes the basics of cognitive maps. This really helped me because it put it into simpler terms and a way I had never thought about it.

Tags: cog3310 Cognition Learning Memory

Rational: The required for easy access later and then learning and memory because this describes how we take what we are learning and place it into our memories.

Site #2 Serial Lists and Memory

http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2006/docs/p1151.pdf

Review: This is a good article that tells the science and psychology behind lists and memory. It also delves into the how this works in everyday tasks. A lengthy read but good information.

Tags: cog3310 Cognition Learning Memory Theory

Rational: The required for easy access later and then learning and memory because this is how the information is best presented. Theory because this is a way to use psychology in everyday life.
Whitney Hampton Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Site 1: Mental Rotation

URL of site 1:
http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/InstrOnly_Page/mentalrotation.htm

review of site 1 here:
this site helped me understqand mental rortation better. it is short but very effective for me. It gives a few examples as well.

tags for site 1 here:
cog3310, Mental_Rotation, and Chapter4Review

rational of tags for site 1 here:
I chose cog3310 because we have to and it lets me know what class this tag goes with. I chose mental_rotation because that is what the article is about. I chose Chapter4Review to let me know that this site is for chapter 4 in my book.

Site 2: Cognitive Maps

URL of site 2 here:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~krafft/papers/2001/wayfinding/html/node33.html

review of site 2 here:
This site helped me to understand the idea of cognitive maps better. I is a little bit long but it proved to be very helpful to me.

tags for site 2 here:
cog3310, Cognitive_Maps, and Chapter4Review

rational of tags for site 2 here:
I chose cog3310 because we have to and it lets me know what class this tag goes with. I chose Cognitive_Maps because that is what the article is about. I chose Chapter4Review to let me know that this site is for chapter 4 in my book.
Hannah Sims Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/
Tags: cognition cog3310 test memory ch4
This is a fun site for a memory test involving mental imagery. It is just something fun to help explain the concept.
2. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/mentalimagery.html
Tags: cog3310 ch4 menatl imagery
This site helps explain what mental imagery is and how it works. It also talks about studies that have been done in this area.
Lauren Foust Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
http://www.neave.com/games/nblox/

This web site lets you play tetris which is similar to object rotation.

object rotation; perception; cog3310

http://www.ul.ie/~mearsa/9519211/newpage2.htm

This site talks about mental rotation and spatial intelligence.

mental rotation; perception; spatial intelligence; cognition; cog3310
Amanda Puckett Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/full_papers/jermyn/jermyn_html/node17.html

This is actually just a section in a larger work, bit its nice because it differentiates common-code theory with the dual-code theory we discussed in class. I feel like the text and lectures sometimes leave me confused and so websites such as this one offer a different explanation about the topic than we’ve already heard. It also delves a little into the abstract-propositional theory. Basically, it just discusses and rephrases the theories for us. I probably would only use this as a study aid or to clear up confusions between the theories.

Tags: picture memory common-code dual-code abstract-propositional theories retention cogntion cog3310

Rationale: These tags are basically key words found on the website as well as the required cognition tags…

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/199/1/219.pdf

This is a neat, yet lengthy and difficult to read article about cognitive maps and it discusses whether animals have cognitive maps similar to humans. The author goes into much detail concerning cognitive maps and the ability to short-cut navigationally- probably too much so. However, if a student were interested enough about the topic, it’s a pretty interesting article that could be put to use in papers and such as a decent reference (I would imagine).

Tags: maps animals memory cognition cog3310 allocentric egocentric

Rationale: Again, keywords and requirements…
Heather Hutchinson Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
site 1:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/mentalimagery.html

Overview: Great article that shows the effects of mental imagery on athletic performance. It is a little wordy but a good article.
tags: mental imagery cog3310 psychology athletic performance.

Site 2:
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn/ocm.pdf

Overview: I would strongly advise anyone how is having trouble understanding mental imagery to read this article. It is a 3.5 page long article that covers mental imagery well and I really got a lot from this one.
tags: mental imagery cog3310 psychology
Heather Hutchinson Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
site 1:
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn/ocm.pdf

Overview: This was a really great article that I would advice anyone to read if that would like to better understand mental imagery. It is a 3.5 page paper that was really well written.
tags: mental imagery cog3310 psychology

site 2:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/mentalimagery.html

Overview: This article really does a great job at discussing mental imagery effects on athletic performance.
tags: mental imagery cog3310 psychology athletic performance
Maurissa Whitaker Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Method of Loci
Site 1:
http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.html

Review: This site gives a little information on the method of loci and how it ties in to other aspects if study and differents ways to use this. It’s interesting to read if you want to know a little more about the method but may not give you the information you would want to study with.

Tags:
cog3310 psych method loci memory

Rational:
key subject words
Maurissa Whitaker Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Mental Imagery used to reduce stress
Site2:
http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/gtelab/learning_activities/25barp.html

Review:
This site may be helpful to a lot of students. It has directions on how to use mental imagery to reduce your stress. It’s suppose to help with job, school and every day stress.

Tags:
cog3310 stress psych visual imagery

Rational:
key subject words
Drew Green Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 1:43 am
1) http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/taylor/

Review: This site was helpful in helping me further understand the idea of Cognitive Maps and if you had problems understanding what the book had to say it should also help you. Good concepts and pictures.

Tags : Cog3310, Psychology, Memory, NGCSU, Cognitive Maps, Psychological Concepts

2) http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edpy597mappin/readings/m5DualCode.htm

Review: Talks about some of the implications for this theory (Dual Code), but it also gives ome ideas in support. You need to know the basics of Dual Code Theory from the book, but this is a good addition.

Tags:Cog3310, Psychology, Memory, NGCSU, Dual Code Theory, Psychological Concept
Stephanie Mangum Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Developing Mental Imagery Skills
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/imagery.htm

Useful for all in improving imagery skills. Active learning article that is simple and easily comprehensible. Serves its purpose of teaching imagery categories and all the steps to take to aid in imagery skills.

Tags: cog3310 ch4 mental imagery skills

Tags give me information about the article so that I can know what it is about and refer back to it at a later time.

Visual Imagery
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/graphics/

This is not much of an article. It gives many illusions and paradoxes to reflect over. An interesting test of the mind.

Tags: cog 3310 ch4 visual imagery paradoxes illusions

These tags tell me that this site relates to each of these words and gives me an idea of what the article is about.
Christy McAtee Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Site #1: http://www.mtsu.edu/~wlangsto/CogPsyNotes5.html
Review of Site #1: This page is a cognitive psychology professor’s course notes on Mental Imagery. (If you go to his home page, he has other links for notes and demonstrations for his cognitive psychology course.) I thought that this site gave a concise, informative overview of mental imagery. He covered the topics of: Where We Are/Themes, Measuring Imagery, Images and Memory, Using Images, Structures of Images, Other Kinds of Images, and Reality Monitoring. For each, he gave a brief explanation and also had demonstrations for most. One thing I liked about this site was that he included questions throughout his notes; some he answered in his discussions and others were for students, but they were helpful to grasp concepts. This would be useful for review or to gain a better understanding of mental imagery.
Tags for Site # 1: cog3310 cognitive-psychology mental-imagery
Rationale of tags for Site #1: I used the tags cog3310 and cognitive psychology so that it would be easy to find for classmates, and the tag mental imagery because that is what the site was about.

Site #2: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~smatei/MentalMaps/index.html
Review of Site #2: This is a very interesting site dedicated only to mental mapping of geographic areas; as quoted from the site, “Geologic or social morphologies are replaced by social and emotional landscapes.” It is maintained by Sorin Matei, who is an educated researcher in this area. He presents his research on mental mapping and uses computer technology to create visible 2-D and 3-D maps. This site contains a home page, which introduces his work, a Mental Map page that explains the idea, a Showcase page that gives some examples of the maps he has created, a History page with a brief history, and a Resource Reference page. The maps are a virtual wonder that display intricate, colorful designs; for example, there is a Los Angeles 3-D mental map of fear which shows how residents mentally view their way around the area and the emotions they feel about these areas. I enjoyed this site because it offered an interesting methodology and creative visualizations that displayed a new way to view invisible mental maps.
Tags for Site # 2: cog3310 cognitive-psychology mental-imagery cognitive-maps demonstrations-and-experiments
Rationale of tags for Site #2: I used the tags cog3310 and cognitive psychology so that it would be easy to find for classmates, and the other tags described the content of the site.
Beth Chambers Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Site 1: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/mental-rotation.html
Review for site 1: This site was very useful in learning more about mental rotation, and exactly how it works. The best part was that it has great pictures to help illustrate the points even more. It goes into detail of the experiment that Shepard & Metzler did to discover this. I really enjoyed learning about that because it can help in future research by learning other people’s methods.
Tags: mentalrotation, cog3310, ch4, test2rev
Reasoning for tags: The article was about mental rotation, cog3310 is the class, ch4 is the chapter, and test2rev is so that readily available when studying for the test.
Site 2: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/gupta/pdf/gupta.cogsci93.isr.pdf
Review for site 2: this site has some great information about the phonological loop. It goes into much more detail than the book. It was very helpful.
Tags: cog3310, ch4, phonologicalloop, test2rev
Reasoning for tags: Cog3310 is for this class ch4 is the chapter the material is in, phonologicalloop is the material in the article, and test2rev is for when I am studying for the test.
Ashley Bogue Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/full_papers/jermyn/jermyn_html/node17.html

Site Review: This site gives a brief yet easy to understand description of dual-code theory and of examples where dual process theory can be found in experiences that occur in our everyday life. It also compares dual-code theory with other theories that we do not cover in this chapter but may help understand dual-code theory better.

Tags: cog3310, dual-code theory, common-code theory, abstract-propositional theory, psychology, memory

Reason for tags: cog3310 for class, dual and common- code theory and abstract-propositional theory because those are subjects covered in the article, then psychology and memory because they are broad subjects that I could look under if needing this webpage later.
Matt Strever Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
1. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/full_papers/jermyn/jermyn_html/node17.html

Describes several theories on differences in picture and word recall. Describes the dual-code theory found in the book.

TAGS: Dual-code theory cog3310 picture word recall memory brain region theories

2.
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/1117

These guys did a study on allocentric spatial referencing in macaque monkeys. It probably won’t help you understand it any better than the book does, but its interesting to look over.

TAGS: cog3310 allocentric representation macaque monkeys
Andey Wood Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Review: discusses qualitative differences between the ways words and pictures are processed during memory. a quick, easy site to get a clearer outlook.

http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/full_papers/jermyn/jermyn_html/node17.html

Tags: cog 3310, chap 4, dual theory.
Angie Rink Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Site 1:
This site has visual images, which are designed to mislead you, to prove visual perception is not always accurate. This was quite interesting.

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/graphics/
tags:
chap4 cog3310 chuck visualperceptiongames memory
chap4 because this is the chapter visual perception and images are discussed cog3310 required, chuck professor, visual perceptiongames to let me know what type of information is covered, memory because it linked to memory

site 2
This site was very interesting. The site discusses cognitive mapping /history. The rat experiement is informatived about cognitive mapping.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Tolman/Maps/maps.htm
tags: chap4 cog3310 cognitivemap chuck memory
chap4 because this is the chapter we discuss cognitive mapping, cog3310 required, cognitivemap this is the material the article discusses, chuck teacher, memory because this is linked to memory
Mike Boyce Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/nburgess/papers/Burgess06TiCS.pdf

A good site that goes in depth of how egocentric and allocentric representation exist parrell to each other. Great graphs and statistics.

Tags spatial memory egocentric allocentric

http://psych.wisc.edu/ugstudies/Psych733/Baddeley.pdf

This site explains the multicomponent approach to working memory and baddeleys thoery of verbal working memory and how the working memory is still working and will always work

tags working memory baddeleys theory
Courtney Demarest Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r7_uSaly7l8

This video is a little demonstration of how our brain works when we visualize something when we close our eyes and can see an object with out seeing it with eyes open. The guys voice is kind of boring on this video but I really thought it was interesting.

Tags:cog3310, imagery, visual, psychology

I chose these tags because this clip explains about visual imagery and how our brain works.
Donata (Madi) Nibarger Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Site 1: http://cat.xula.edu/thinker/memory/working/

Provides a simple and concise explanation and diagram of Baddeley’s phonological loop theory.

Tags: Cog 3310, psychology, Chapter 4, Baddeley’s phonological loop theory, thinker.

Cog 3310 describes the course, psychology describes the subject, chapter 4 identifies the chapter, Baddeley’s phonological loop theory describes the content of the web-site and thinker provides the resource.

Site 2: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/ftp/psz/k-rep.html#kr

An article from MIT that provides a thorough definition of knowledge representation

Tags: Cog 3310, psychology, Chapter 4, knowledge representation, MIT

Cog 3310 describes the course, psychology describes the subject, chapter 4 identifies the chapter, knowledge representation defines the content of the web-site and MIT provides the resource.
Candice Cooper Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
1.) http://intraspec.ca/cogmap.php
Cognitive Mapping
Review: This site helped me understand the concept of conitive mapping. It goes into some stuff not covered in our book, but for the most part it just explains what the term “cognitive mapping” implies.
Tags: cog3310 cognitive mapping chapter4
Rationale: cog3310 and chapter4 to signify the class and book chapter this site pertained to, cognitive and mapping to identify the site’s topics.

2.) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/mental-rotation.html
Mental Imagery > Mental Rotation
Review: This website goes into detail about Shepard & Metzler’s research on mental rotation. It also helped me better understand the concepts their work supported.
Tags: cog3310 Mental rotation chapter4
Rationale: cog3310 and chapter4 to signify the class and book chapter this site pertained to, mental and rotation to identify the site’s topics.
Drew Watts Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/dual-coding-theory.html
It is a good site with a lot of information on the theory and a bit more in depth knowledge.
Cog3310 dual code theory
It is a Stanford site about dual code theory.
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Gupta/pdf/gupta.cogsci93.isr.pdf
It is an article that discusses phonological loops and whether or not it would be auditory or articulatory.
Cog3310 Phonological loop
The site is a discussion about phonological loop.
Megan Collis Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Site #1: http://www.indiana.edu/~rhetid/zelizer.htm

Review: This site gives a closer look into visual memory and explains some of its properties better than the book. It is a short article and not difficult to read.

Tags: cog3310 memory visual

Rational: I used memory and visual because its the focus of the article and its also the chapter we are in.

Site 2: http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Jana.Holsanova/PDF/Holsanova.1997.pdf

Review: This is a very interesting article that talks about the ways we perceive pictures and the way we describe it depends on how it is viewed. Its not hard to read but it is a longer article.

Tags: storage cog3310 brain memory visual

Rational: Memory is used because its the focus of the article and visual because thats what its study uses. I used brain and storage because it helps me remember where the memory takes place and that it effects how we store the memory.
Marissa Perszyk Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
http://www.alleydog.com/cognotes/imagery.html

Another cog psych class posted their notes. It provides extra explanations and examples. It is broad but helpful.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=792

This site is very cool for seeing how you use mental imagery and how to implement ‘experiments’ on others and analyze the data.
Marissa Perszyk Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=792

Very cool site. Let’s you check your own ’style’ of mental imagery and analyze others from tasks you give.

http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn/tics_imagery.pdf

From ‘Trends in Cognitive Sciences’. Talks about the study of mental imagery, its history and evidence for it.
Steven Belcher Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/InstrOnly_Page/mentalrotation.htm

review: This site is useful because it details how to perform a mental rotation task, as made famous by Shepard and Metzler, and enables the layman to achieve a firmer grasp on the practical aspects of cognitive psychology.

Tags: cog3310, mental imagery, mental rotation

rational: cog because of our class, and mental imagery and rotation due to the nature of the website

http://intraspec.ca/cogmap.php

review: this site provides a basic purview of cognitive mapping that is easily understood. It also details Novak’s early work in the subject at Cornell University.

tags: cog3310, cognitive mapping,

rational: cog for class, cog mapping to guide delicious users to the page they’re looking for,
Christie Cates Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Chapter 4
URL of site 1: http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/cognitive/perception/section1.html

review of site 1: This site discusses mental imagery. It also discusses mentally rotating objects and scanning objects.

tags for site 1: mentalimagery perception rotation cog3310

rational of tags for site 1: I tagged this site as mental imagery, because chapter 4 discusses mental imagery. I also tagged perception and rotation, because they are discussed in the site. I tagged cog3310, because it is for this class.

URL of site 2: http://www.psypress.com/ek5/resources/demo_ch06-sc-02.asp

review of site 2: This site discusses a number of subjects we studied in chapter 4. It discusses working memory, the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive, etc. It seems to lay things out in a more simplistic and understandable way.

tags for site 2: workingmemory cog3310

rational of tags for site 2: I tagged this site as working memory, because that is the main topic of this page. I didn’t tag more specific terms, because there are quite a few that are relevant to this chapter. I tagged cog3310, because it is for this class.
Rhonda Adams Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
1. http://www.imagery-imagination.com/

This is a great site that includes several articles on imagery including mental rotation, spatial characteristics, and the imagery debate.

Tags: cog3310 cognition imagery imagination sensory psychology

I chose these tags because this is a great reference for imagery, and I included the class tags.

2. http://intraspec.ca/cogmap.php

This is a great article explaining cognitive maps. Discusses how the brain codes, stores, and recalls information. It also explains concept mapping.

Tags: cog3310 cognition mapping information spatial psychology prof_chuck

I chose these tags because the article discusses cognitive mapping and information. I also added the class tags.
Kane Miller Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:bnISTQZTpksJ:web.mit.edu/bnl/pdf/Kensinger_Emo03.pdf+bradley’s+phonological+loop&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=80&gl=us&client=firefox-a

An interesting look at the interplay between emotion and memory. More specifically for our class, however, the article gives a good base of info on memory in general before diving in.

tags: cog3310 memory emotion mit psyc phonological

http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/archives/spr2002/entries/mental-imagery

Another summation, outside of our book, of the concepts of mental imagery.

tags: cog3310 imagery mental cognition perception titchener
Whitney Jones Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Site 1: Cognitive Maps
http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wstevens/PROPOSALCLASS/WeberCognitiveMapping.html
This website gives one a good description of what a cognitive map is. It also tells you how a cognitive map is constructed. There are several examples about what is talked about and visuals.
Tags: cog3310-for class, cognitivemaps-this is what concept the site is about, ch4-this is the chapter it was in

Site 2: Baddeley’s Theory
http://www.hf.faa.gov/Webtraining/Cognition/CogFinal024.htm
This website deals with two concepts in Baddeley’s theory of verbal working memory. It gives brief descriptions of both what a visuospatial sketchpad and a phonological loop are. There is also a graph showing how the central executive fits into the the theory.
Tags: cog3310-for class, visuospatialsketchpad-one of the terms on site, phonologicalloop-another term on the site
Ashley Bogue Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery

Site 2 Review: This website is a detailed explanation of mental imagery. It goes into what mental imagery is and how it relates to perception that goes along with what is in the textbook. The website covers the history of views on imagery as well which is more than we need to know but is interesting.

Tags: cog3310, mental imagery, visualization, perception, chapter 4 review

Reason for tags: I choose these tags because mental imagery/ visualization and perception are discussed in the webpage. I added cog3310 for class and chapter 4 review incase needing to refer back to it for the test.
elizabeth bauman Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
site #1

title: mental imagery

address: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/mentalimagery.html

review:this site gives great examples of how using mental imagery can help people perform better, particularly in sports; how it works, and rehearsal mechanisms

tags: cog3310, chapter 4

reasons: this is a good example of how one can use mental imagery, and as a study tool, it can clarify for those who struggle with the concept of mental imagery
elizabeth bauman Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
site #2

address:http://www.readingonline.org/research/Sadoski.html

title: mental imagery in reading

review:How we use mental imagery and how it spontaneously occurs when we are reading

tags:cog 3310, chapter 4

reasons:this site can be used to supplement and clarify mental imagery
Earnest Mason Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
chapter 4 mental imagery
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/mentalimagery.html

Mental imagery, also called visualization and mental rehearsal, is defined as
experience that resembles perceptual experience, but which occurs in the absence of the
appropriate stimuli for the relevant perception

cog3310: imagery
Daniel Covington Says:
October 26th, 2007 at 12:23 am
URL http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/imagery.htm

Tag: A sumary overview of Imagery

Description: This site would be a good introductory site to visit to gather very summary data in preparation for a paper or presentation. It is definately geared towards the lay person, however, it could prove useful as a learning tool for educators
Daniel Covington Says:
October 26th, 2007 at 12:26 am
URL http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/

Tag: Mental Imagery / Cog 3310

Description: This site provides comprehesnive and detailed information of the process of mental imagery. This site would be very useful in paper writing and research demonstrations as it is informative, thorough, and a genuine relevet site which thoroughly supports the conclusions presented herein.