Individual differences in mental imagery in different modalities and levels of intentionality

Floridou, Georgia A.; Peerdeman, Kaya J.; Schaefer, Rebecca

doi:10.3758/s13421-021-01209-7

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“…For instance, greater imagery strength was positively associated with greater visual working memory ( Keogh and Pearson, 2014 ). The relationship between reported imagery vividness and individual differences is found to be related to many aspects, including background experience in a related activity such as sports ( Di Corrado et al, 2014 ), music ( Aleman et al, 2000 ), and video games ( Floridou et al, 2021 ). Especially for less frequent words, the individual differences between vocabulary and world knowledge word processing speed might be another underlying factor for the imageability ratings.…”

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Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations

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The present study investigates the relations between L2-English proficiency and L1-Turkish lexical property evaluations. We asked whether L2 proficiency affects lexical properties, including imageability and concreteness ratings of 600 Turkish words selected from the Word Frequency Dictionary of Written Turkish. Seventy-two participants (L1-Turkish - L2-English) provided ratings of concreteness and imageability for 600 words on a 7-point scale. In order to assess their L2 proficiency, we administered Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-IV (PPVT-IV). We divided categories into two subcategories as high and low for the frequency, concreteness, imageability, and age of acquisition (AoA). The relationship between these subcategories and imageability-concreteness was examined by mixed effects linear regression analyses. We found that L2 proficiency and imageability ratings were positively correlated and specifically, this positive association was evident for low-frequency words and later acquired words. Results are in line with the interaction of bilingual representation under the dual-coding theory which suggests that bilinguals develop an interconnected imaginal representation for two languages as opposed to separate verbal representations. As L2 proficiency increased, the imageability also increased. These findings have implications for literature investigating the relationship between L2 proficiency and linguistic outcomes. Additionally, findings point to the importance of considering the L2 proficiency of participants when lexical tasks that involve cue words or word lists are used.

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“…One way in which we can discuss imagery use is through intentionality and whether mental imagery is experienced voluntarily, meaning an individual can willingly call up images within their mind, or involuntarily, such as whilst experiencing intrusive thoughts (Floridou, Peerdeman & Schaefer, 2022).…”

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“…It is widely assumed that designers rely heavily on mental imagery, in particular on visual mental imagery, and that visual mental imagery is an essential part of design cognition (Hart & Hay, 2022). However, research shows that there are considerable variations in the experience of mental imagery, from different sense imagery (Floridou, Peerdeman & Schaefer, 2022) to differing levels of clarity between individuals (Gallagher, 2019;Zeman, 2021). There are even reports of distinguished animation artists (Gallagher, 2019) and visual artists (Zeman, 2021) reporting that they experience no visual imagery, and while product design engineering is a very different type of design to art and animation, there are similarities in the assumptions made regarding creative professions and visual mental imagery (Hart & Hay, 2022).…”

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A Framework for Understanding Mental Imagery in Design Cognition Research

Macfie,

Hay,

Rodgers

2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Mental imagery is the experience of perceiving an object within one's own mind and is a subjective experience, leading to difficulties in the research and understanding of the phenomenon. This paper documents the development and verification of a framework for researching the elements of mental imagery. The framework was developed following a review of both psychology and design literature which signified three fundamental conceptual viewpoints of mental imagery: imagery modalities, dimensions of imagery ability, and imagery processes. The aim of this framework is to allow for structured research on mental imagery in any given research field. This is verified through discussion for the product design engineering discipline and provides a base for future work on this topic. The conclusions made in this paper reveal that mental imagery, and particularly visual mental imagery, is largely considered to be integral in design overlooking the different realities of designers and confirming a greater need to understand mental imagery experiences in product design engineering.

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“…This is congruent with the previous research which showed that participants switched backwards and forwards between visual imagery and motor imagery rather than use them concurrently (Collins et al, 1998;Olsson et al, 2008), since limited information are allowed to be displayed in working memory (Pylyshyn, 2003). However, studies provided evidence supporting that the experience of visual imagery and motor imagery can be concurrently (Cumming and Ste-Marie, 2001;Callow and Roberts, 2010;Floridou et al, 2022). Therefore, whether the individual differences in dance performance between amateur dancers and non-dancers is associated with the switching ability between visual imagery and motor imagery remain to be explored.…”

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Effect of skill proficiency on motor imagery ability between amateur dancers and non-dancers

Mao¹,

Huang²,

Ouyang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Evidence has shown that athletes with high motor skill proficiency possess higher motor imagery ability than those with low motor skill proficiency. However, less is known whether this superiority in motor imagery ability emerges over amateur athletes. To address the issue, the present study aimed to investigate the individual differences in motor imagery ability between amateur dancers and non-dancers. Forty participants completed a novel dance movement reproduction task and measures of the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ) and the vividness of motor imagery questionnaire (VMIQ). The results showed that, relative to non-dancers, amateur dancers had higher ability of motor imagery to reproduce the lower-limb and upper-limb dance movements during the dance movement reproduction task. Besides, amateur dancers displayed higher abilities of the visual motor imagery and the kinesthetic imagery, but comparable visual imagery ability as the non-dancers. These findings suggest that the mental representation of motors but not the visual is affected by the motor skill levels, due to the motor imagery practice in sports amateurs.

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Individual differences in mental imagery in different modalities and levels of intentionality

Cited by 32 publications

References 128 publications

Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations

Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations

A Framework for Understanding Mental Imagery in Design Cognition Research

Effect of skill proficiency on motor imagery ability between amateur dancers and non-dancers

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