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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Mental Images"”.
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Understanding the hidden experience of head and neck cancer patients: a qualitative exploration of beliefs and mental images
… illness may be embodied in visual form, in their mental images of the disease. Beliefs embedded in mental images may not be captured via traditional modes of assessment, and thus far the possible significance of this kind of ‘visual knowledge’, has been largely overlooked. Studies using visual …
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Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Singular Thought
… that the intellect cognizes singulars by way of mental images. Some recent commentators have claimed that Aquinas' appeal to mental images is inadequate to account for the intellectual cognition of singulars because mental images considered in terms of their qualitative character alone have …
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Promoting recall in rational psychotherapy through imagery techniques
Research on imagery process has shown that mental images serve to organize, store, and retrieve meaningful information. Since learning is a central activity in psychotherapy, it was theorized that use of imagery in the therapeutic dialogue would enhance the storage and retrieval of meaningful …
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A serving of empathy
… to generate empathy. These paintings realize the mental images I had when I heard stories, and the mental images I created over the years when reviving the original stories. Fragments of Memory is a suite of five ceramic artworks that reconstruct my memory of my mother’s remembered experience. …
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Creating Imaginary Worlds on the Page and in the Mind
… (2020). The author, being himself unable to form mental images, but wishing to stimulate that reaction in his readers, explores possible similarities between visual perception and visual imagination. Utilizing this exploration he devises and presents a framework for descriptive writing that may be …
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Students' Learning Approaches and Their Understanding of Some Chemical Concepts in Eighth-Grade Science
… a deep learning approach included generating mental images and analogies, hypothesizing, thought experimenting and predicting possible outcomes, self-explaining and theorizing, invoking personal experiences and prior knowledge and applying them to new situations, asking questions, thinking of …
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Effects of imagery on perceptual implicit tests of memory
… words during a study phase and asked to form mental images of corresponding pictures, more priming was obtained on a picture fragment identification test than from a condition in which subjects performed a semantic analysis of words. Experiments 2a and 2b replicated the finding of imaginal …
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Sampling inner experience in individuals with anxiety
… problems through "rapid fire" reverse-order mental images. These results are followed by between participant nomothetic comparisons. Among the results it was found that anxious individuals are more likely than controls to be dominated by the experience of sensory awareness and experience a …
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Controlling Creativity: The Power Of Drawing In Children's Literature
… of themselves. Adults influence these images, too, and their participation in the act of drawing influences the children’s ability to have power. Understanding authors’ descriptions of these characters and their creativity gives insight into how the audience develops mental images of …
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Mental Imagery in the Use of Knowledge (Visual, Mediation, Introspection, Functionalism)
Inconsistency in the occurrence of mental imagery has been a traditional source of debate in psychology. This dissertation examines causal relationships between mental imagery and knowledge in order to predict use of imagery. It is suggested that mental images are a type of conscious mediation. …
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Kinesthetic Imagery and Choreographic Praxis
… how dancers can create certain types of mental images that are formed through their kinesthetic perception, which we shall define as ‘kinesthetic images’, and to study the spatial or geometric structures that are often utilized in choreographic and pedagogical dance praxis. The term …
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MURPHY: A neurally-inspired connectionist approach to learning and performance in vision-based robot motion planning
… his arm through a combination of physical and ""mental"" practice, and then uses simple heuristic search with mental images of his arm to solve visually-guided reaching problems in the presence of obstacles whose traditional algorithmic solutions are extremely complex. MURPHY differs from …
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The Autonomous Maker within: 'Fantasia' in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Theory (1501-1568)
… when artists already intensively debated the mental powers at play in their practice. In this context, fantasia was a controversial faculty and an ambivalent term of ekphrasis. Its appeal as a philosophical concept was counteracted by its vexed role in the psychology of perception, where it …
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Mapping urban perception : how do we know where we are?
… structure doesn't prevent the forming of strong mental images. While this new method cannot completely replace face-to-face interviews, it demonstrates the possibility of using available technology to scale visual surveys to hundreds or even thousands of people and rapidly visualize the resulting …
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The effects of imagery rehearsal strategy and cognitive style on the learning of different levels of instructional objectives
… One of three treatments, mental images recreated from a previously presented visual, self-generated imagery from an audio presentation; and a control group, which received no instructions to use imagery, was randomly assigned to each intact group. The content of the lesson …
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Multi-form Visualisation: An approach to acousmatic composition
… to daydream to be moved by sounds, the flow of mental images, virtual sensations, and memory-images that one can associate with traces, dots, shapes or textures. This parallel allows me to find my way within the sonic realm, shaping sound materials and sequences that progressively define a …
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Transforming the City. An Ethnography of Contested Public Space in Venezuela
… Bolívar and Plaza Altamira have become common mental images carried by numbers of Caracas inhabitants to construct a political apartheid. Opponents and supporters have used, and re-created both sites, investing them with their ethos. Therefore, these places have become the setting where …
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Troublesome or Threshold? : the experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics
… than the episteme of a discipline including mental images, memories, and shortcuts taken by experts. The variation in what is found difficult and by whom is suggested as being due to differences in the prior experience of students. In order to differentiate threshold concepts from other …
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Obstáculos y dificultades en la evolución de las estructuras conceptuales y espitemológicas de los futuros maestros: un estudio de casos sobre el fenomeno de las estaciones
… have also been detected with the use of mental images in the space and the projection of the view on a plane. Related together in the Mathematical field, arithmetic and geometric problems appear. Another inconvenience is associated to the traditional tendency and with the facts …
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Taking Berkeley seriously
… spirit. First, Berkeley’s treatment of ideas as ‘mental images’ is required to distinguish ideas from active know-how, which is often mistaken for an ‘idea’ (according to Berkeley). Second, any claim that Berkeley’s “Master Argument” commits him to solipsism can be addressed by pointing out that …
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