PPT-Mindboggling Visual Imagery (visual cortex)

Visualize a place youd like to be Maybe its riding a bike sitting in the park or just hanging out in your bedroom Create an image of that place and hold it in your mind for a minute Auditory Cortex. Rediscovery of . mental . imagery . in the 1950s marked the . return of . cognitive . concepts within . a behaviorist context.. The term . mental image. has . been universally assumed to . mean a . conscious. Justin Carroll. Jessica Snook. Imagery. Definition. Visually descriptive language that encapsulates all figurative language especially similes and metaphors.. Imagery uses descriptive words and phrases to paint a mental image in the reader’s mind.. (Purves, chapter 23). aka ‘the plastic people of the universe’. Half a Brain is Enough: The Story of Nico (2001). Antonio M. Battro (Series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development, No. 5). CUP. Light is electromagnetic energy.. One nm = one billionth of a meter. The Visible Spectrum. Properties of light. hue – determined by . wavelength.. saturation – relative purity of . light.. brightness – variation in . Group A3. Presenters: Anastasia Christopher, Carol . Rego. , Sarah McNeil. Technical Experts: Bonnie Chan, Herman Gill, Marisa Leung. Brief overview of Module 3 . Background information and important definitions. Rediscovery of . mental . imagery . in the 1950s marked the . return of . cognitive . concepts within . a behaviorist context.. The term . mental image. has . been universally assumed to . mean a . conscious. Sensory Language and Visual Imagery . Since most poems express emotions and ideas, a writer must SHOW what is being written about. Poets and song writers use visual imagery and sensory language to show ideas.. Zenon Pylyshyn. Rutgers University,. Center for Cognitive Science. http:/ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn.html. The illusion of mental pictures. There is no question that we (all but about 2% of us) experience mental images and, in some sense, use them to recall, anticipate and enjoy life in the absence of the things and people that we imagine.. Imagery. Forming . a picture in the mind without sensory . input. Mental imagery. Visual imagery. Paivio. , Smyth and . Yuille. (1968. ). Subject studied word-pairs with each member varying in imagery. The anterior part of the neural tube expands to form the brain.. The neural tube goes on to form all the parts of the brain.. However, the . anterior. region expands much more rapidly, resulting in the cerebral hemispheres and brain structures.. Encoding in the retina. Encoding: Ganglion cells have center/surround receptive fields. Rods send information to . magnocellular. pathway. Cones send information to . parvocellular. pathway. Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. . Perception. of. . . shape. . . . motion. . . color. . Two. . pathways. retina – . cortex. visual. . perception. retina – . brainstem. , . diencephalon. eye. . movements. circadian. Primary visual sensory area . is located in the occipital lobe around the calcarine sulcus (Broadman area 17) and it is called stria of Gennari or the striate cortex .. Damage to this area will lead to blindness.. Neocortex. Allocortex. Periallocortex. anterior . insular . cortex. entorhinal. . cortex, . perirhinal. . cortex, . presubiculum. , . parasubiculum. , . retrosplenial. . cortex, . subcallosal. . area and .