Measuring Visual Imagery Ability: A Review

McAvinue, Laura P.; Robertson, Ian H.

doi:10.2190/3515-8169-24j8-7157

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“…Finally, due to mixed reports regarding satisfactory testretest reliability for the VVIQ (McAvinue & Robertson, 2007), we adopted a new measure of visual imagery: All participants completed the session by taking the Object-Spatial Imagery Questionnaire (OSIQ; Blajenkova, Kozhevnikov, & Motes, 2006), which consists of questions that reliably distinguish object imagery (representations of color and individual objects) from spatial imagery (representations of schematic images and spatial relations between objects).…”

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No imagination effect on boundary extension

Munger

Multhaup

2015

Mem Cogn

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Boundary extension (BE) occurs when people falsely remember perceiving beyond the edges of a presented scene. Theorists argue that BE occurs because people mistakenly attribute information they have generated to the study stimulus-that is, they make a source memory error. Inspired by this idea, in six experiments we tested whether scene details resulting from explicit imagination would be misremembered as actual visual perceptions, resulting in increased BE as compared with standard instructions. In four experiments, undergraduates completed a BE task with separate study and test blocks; in two further experiments, undergraduates completed a trial-by-trial BE task (N = 290). Half of the participants elaborated on the study pictures (imagined smells and sounds, or what was to the left and right of the scene, or what a photographer would see by zooming in or out). Robust BE was found in all experiments, but none of the elaborations modified the size of BE; therefore, BE is not to be affected by explicit elaboration and may be related to spatial rather than visual imagery ability.

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No imagination effect on boundary extension

Munger

Multhaup

2015

Mem Cogn

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“…For example, the review by White, Sheehan, and Ashton (1977) surveys only self-report measures of imagery, while that by McAvinue and Robertson (2008) focuses only on measures of motor imagery. A further review by McAvinue and Robertson (2007) explores self-report and objective measures but focuses on visual imagery and does not consider the clinical relevance of the measures. To our knowledge, no English-language review has yet been conducted of the key domains of mental imagery and the associated experimental tasks which may be most relevant in the field of clinical psychology.…”

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Assessing mental imagery in clinical psychology: A review of imagery measures and a guiding framework

Pearson

Deeprose

Wallace-Hadrill

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Clinical Psychology Review

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Mental imagery is an under-explored field in clinical psychology research but presents a topic of potential interest and relevance across many clinical disorders, including social phobia, schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. There is currently a lack of a guiding framework from which clinicians may select the domains or associated measures most likely to be of appropriate use in mental imagery research. We adopt an interdisciplinary approach and present a review of studies across experimental psychology and clinical psychology in order to highlight the key domains and measures most likely to be of relevance. This includes a consideration of methods for experimentally assessing the generation, maintenance, inspection and transformation of mental images; as well as subjective measures of characteristics such as image vividness and clarity. We present a guiding framework in which we propose that cognitive, subjective and clinical aspects of imagery should be explored in future research. The guiding framework aims to assist researchers in the selection of measures for assessing those aspects of mental imagery that are of most relevance to clinical psychology. We propose that a greater understanding of the role of mental imagery in clinical disorders will help drive forward advances in both theory and treatment.

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“…Additionally, we are concerned that the objective scoring criterion for each suggestibility item used in the present study may have masked more subtle effects in how strongly each suggestion was perceived and recommend the additional use of subjective assessment of response to suggestion. Similarly, a measure of imaginative ability using an interval linear scaling might be preferable to the ordinal responses required by the QMI, and a number of theoretically derived measures of imagery have recently been developed (McAvine andRobertson 2006-2007). Practically, since the objective of clinicians is to maximise responsiveness to suggestion, it will be interesting to see whether nitrous oxide administration plus a hypnotic induction would increase suggestibility additively.…”

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