Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - April 2002 - Volume 25, Issue 02  


Short Communication

Mental imagery in memory psychophysics

William M. Petrusic a1 and Joseph V. Baranski a2
a1 Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada bill_petrusic@carleton.ca
a2 Defence Research and Development Canada, 1133 Shepard Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, M3M 3B9, Canada joe.baranski@dciem.dnd.ca

Abstract

Imagery has played an important, albeit controversial, role in the study of memory psychophysics. In this commentary we critically examine the available data bearing on whether pictorial based depictions of remembered perceptual events are activated and scanned in each of a number of different psychophysical tasks.