Object imagery refers to the ability to construct pictorial images of objects. Individuals with high object imagery (high-OI) produce more vivid mental images than individuals with low object imagery (low-OI), and they encode and process both mental images and visual stimuli in a more global and holistic way. In the present study, we investigated whether and how level of object imagery may affect the way in which individuals identify visual objects. High-OI and low-OI participants were asked to perform a visual identification task with spatially-filtered pictures of real objects. Each picture was presented at nine levels of filtering, starting from the most blurred (level 1: only low spatial frequencies-global configuration) and gradually adding high spatial frequencies up to the complete version (level 9: global configuration plus local and internal details). Our data showed that high-OI participants identified stimuli at a lower level of filtering than participants with low-OI, indicating that they were better able than low-OI participants to identify visual objects at lower spatial frequencies. Implications of the results and future developments are discussed. © 2008 Marta Olivetti Belardinelli and Springer-Verlag.

Object imagery and object identification: Object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects / Vannucci, Manila; Mazzoni, Giuliana; Chiorri, Carlo; Cioli, Lavinia. - In: COGNITIVE PROCESSING. - ISSN 1612-4782. - 9:2(2008), pp. 137-143. [10.1007/s10339-008-0203-5]

Object imagery and object identification: Object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects

Mazzoni, Giuliana;
2008

Abstract

Object imagery refers to the ability to construct pictorial images of objects. Individuals with high object imagery (high-OI) produce more vivid mental images than individuals with low object imagery (low-OI), and they encode and process both mental images and visual stimuli in a more global and holistic way. In the present study, we investigated whether and how level of object imagery may affect the way in which individuals identify visual objects. High-OI and low-OI participants were asked to perform a visual identification task with spatially-filtered pictures of real objects. Each picture was presented at nine levels of filtering, starting from the most blurred (level 1: only low spatial frequencies-global configuration) and gradually adding high spatial frequencies up to the complete version (level 9: global configuration plus local and internal details). Our data showed that high-OI participants identified stimuli at a lower level of filtering than participants with low-OI, indicating that they were better able than low-OI participants to identify visual objects at lower spatial frequencies. Implications of the results and future developments are discussed. © 2008 Marta Olivetti Belardinelli and Springer-Verlag.
2008
Mental imagery; Object imagery; Spatial frequency; Visual object identification; Adolescent; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Female; Humans; Imagination; Male; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Psychophysics; Space Perception; Statistics, Nonparametric; Surveys and Questionnaires; Vision, Ocular; Identification (Psychology); Cognitive Neuroscience
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Object imagery and object identification: Object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects / Vannucci, Manila; Mazzoni, Giuliana; Chiorri, Carlo; Cioli, Lavinia. - In: COGNITIVE PROCESSING. - ISSN 1612-4782. - 9:2(2008), pp. 137-143. [10.1007/s10339-008-0203-5]
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