USE OF EEG RECORDINGS AS VALID MEASURES OF KINESTHETIC AND VISUAL IMAGERY ABILITY

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. CREMADES ◽  
M. TITO ◽  
M. ADJOUADI ◽  
A. BARRETO
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Eeg Recordings

Is Locomotor Distance Estimation Guided by Visual Imagery?

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 1267-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Corlett ◽  
John Anton ◽  
Steve Kozub ◽  
Michel Tardif
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Target Location ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Distance Estimation ◽  
Target Distance ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Movement Imagery

70 subjects were tested for their visual subscale scores on the Movement Imagery Questionnaire and also for their ability to walk, without vision, to a previously viewed target location 9 m away. Imagery ability was hypothesized to correlate with accuracy of “blind” target-directed walking which the literature suggests, without empirical support, is imagery-dependent. No support for this hypothesis was found. Low, medium, and high imagers showed no differences in ability to reproduce target distance accurately or consistently by walking the estimated distance without further visual updating. The results call into question whether task performance is imagery-based or whether subjects use alternative strategies to approach the target.

Sailing Video-Imagery: Impacts on Imagery Ability

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gapin ◽  
Tim Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Video Modeling ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Mental Practice ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Video Imagery ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a standardized mental practice tool incorporating principles of video, modeling, and traditional-imagery,on the imagery ability of competitive college sailors. A quasi-experimental method using a quantitative pre-test/post-test design was administered with a convenience sample of collegiate sailors recruited via the Internet. An integrated video-imagery intervention was compared with a traditional verbal intervention to measure each intervention’s impact on imagery ability. The Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire-2 (VMIQ-2) was used to assess external visual imagery, internal visual imagery, and kinesthetic imagery. Exposure to video-imagery resulted in significant improvement of external visual, internal visual, and kinesthetic imagery abilities. There was no significant difference between improvements from video-imagery versus traditional-imagery. Future studies should explore best combinations of imagery and observation techniques, and efficacious elements of each

Movement Imagery Ability: Development and Assessment of a Revised Version of the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Roberts ◽  
Nichola Callow ◽  
Lew Hardy ◽  
David Markland ◽  
Joy Bringer
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Factorial Validity ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Movement Imagery ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Preliminary Support

The purpose of this research was to amend the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ; Isaac, Marks, & Russell, 1986) in line with contemporary imagery modality and perspective conceptualizations, and to test the validity of the amended questionnaire (i.e., the VMIQ-2). Study 1 had 351 athletes complete the 3-factor (internal visual imagery, external visual imagery, and kinesthetic imagery) 24-item VMIQ-2. Following single-factor confirmatory factor analyses and item deletion, a 12-item version was subject to correlated traits / correlated uniqueness (CTCU) analysis. An acceptable fit was revealed. Study 2 used a different sample of 355 athletes. The CTCU analysis confirmed the factorial validity of the 12-item VMIQ-2. In Study 3, the concurrent and construct validity of the VMIQ-2 was supported. Taken together, the results of the 3 studies provide preliminary support for the revised VMIQ-2 as a psychometrically valid questionnaire.

Is visual imagery ability higher for orthodontic students than those in other disciplines? A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-211
Author(s):  
Robert SD Smyth ◽  
Priti Acharya ◽  
Nigel P Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
University College London

Objective: To investigate the effect visual imagery may have on career choice among current university students across a range of subjects and disciplines. Setting: University College London (UCL), UK. Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire-based study. Participants: The study compared four main groups of UCL students: current students at the Slade School of Fine Art; UCL Eastman Dental Institute; UCL Bartlett School of Architecture; and the Faculty of Laws. Method: A questionnaire based on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) was distributed along with questions regarding demographic information. Results: There were no significant differences between the VVIQ scores across the four included Schools/Faculty: The Slade School of Fine Art; UCL Bartlett School of Architecture; Faculty of Laws; and UCL Eastman Dental Institute, F(3,219) = 2.160, P = 0.094. There were also no significant differences in the scores for the Eastman ( M = 60.21, SD = 13.58) and the three other Schools/Faculty ( M = 62.87, SD = 10.96); t(–1.317) = 221, P = 0.189, and no significant difference in the scores for the Orthodontic students ( M = 60.80, SD = 13.39) and the remaining other included students ( M = 61.44, SD = 9.68); t(–0.232) = 221, P = 0.817. Aphantasia was uncommon in this sample, with a prevalence of 0.9%. A positive correlation was found between age group and total VVIQ score, with older participants scoring higher on the VVIQ. Women were significantly more likely to say that their ability to visualise had affected their career choice than male respondents. Conclusions: There were no significant differences between the VVIQ scores across the four included Schools/Faculty. Visual imagery ability did not differ in dental or orthodontic students in comparison to other student groups. Further work is needed to replicate these findings in more diverse samples.

Olfactory Imagery and Repetition Priming

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 397-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Tomiczek ◽  
Richard J. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Hit Rate ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
Olfactory Processing ◽  
Odor Naming ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the impact of odor naming and imagery ability on the capacity of female participants to form odor images, as indexed by a novel olfactory repetition priming task. Experiment 1 involved three conditions – olfactory and visual imagery priming, and a no-prime control. Odor imagery priming was only obtained in good odor namers. Experiment 2 used the same conditions, but altered the nature of the hit-rate trials to test how odor imagery might facilitate performance in good odor namers. Odor imagery priming was again obtained only in good odor namers and this effect appeared to result from generic activation of olfactory processing caused by trying to imagine a smell. Experiment 3 examined whether this latter effect might be generated semantically, but no evidence for this was obtained. Together, these findings suggest that trying to form an odor image can facilitate performance by producing a generic state of activation, which only benefits existing odor-name associations. While this effect is mediated via perceptual processes it may occur independently of a conscious image.

Similarities in visual imagery ability in young and old women

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Pierce ◽  
Martha Storandt
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Imagery Ability

scholarly journals Different representations and strategies in mental rotation

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (7) ◽  
pp. 1574-1583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binglei Zhao ◽  
Sergio Della Sala
Keyword(s):  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Standard Object

It is still debated whether holistic or piecemeal transformation is applied to carry out mental rotation (MR) as an aspect of visual imagery. It has been recently argued that various mental representations could be flexibly generated to perform MR tasks. To test the hypothesis that imagery ability and types of stimuli interact to affect the format of representation and the choice of strategy in performing MR task, participants, grouped as good or poor imagers, were assessed using four MR tasks, comprising two sets of ‘Standard’ cube figures and two sets of ‘non-Standard’ ones, designed by withdrawing cubes from the Standard ones. Both good and poor imagers performed similarly under the two Standard conditions. Under non-Standard conditions, good imagers performed much faster in non-Standard objects than Standard ones, whereas poor imagers performed much slower in non-Standard objects than Standard ones. These results suggested that (1) individuals did not differ in processing the integrated Standard object, whereas (2) in processing the non-Standard objects, various visual representations and strategies could be applied in MR by diverse individuals: Good imagers were more flexible in generating different visual representations, whereas poor imagers applied different strategies under different task demands.

scholarly journals The comparison of Imagery ability in elite, sub-elite and non-elite swimmers

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
Pedro Alexandre Duarte Mendes ◽  
Daniel Almeida Marinho ◽  
Diogo Monteiro ◽  
Luís Cid ◽  
Rui Paulo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Imagery Ability ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Intervention Method ◽  
Movement Imagery ◽  
Elite Swimmers ◽  
And Control

The ability to generate and control mental images is present in all of us, but it differs from person to person. Therefore, it is important to understand that imagery ability can be changed through training and experimentation, it is not a fixed ability (Cumming & Williams, 2012). The aim of this study is to compare imagery ability in elite, sub-elite and non-elite athletes in a sport which involves closed and continuous motor skills, such as swimming. 79 swimmers (male N = 37; female N = 42) at an average age of 17 took part in this study. In order to assess imagery ability, the Movement Imagery Questionnaire 3 was used, Portuguese version (Mendes et al., 2016). After analysis of the results, these show that in each and every imagery modality, the scores in the three groups differ significantly. In kinesthetic and external visual imagery the elite and sub-elite groups’ scores, although not statistically different from each other, are significantly higher than those of the non-elite group. In internal visual imagery, the differences between all the compared pairs of groups are statistically significant. The elite group got the highest scores, followed by the sub-elite group average scores and finally the non-elite group average scores. According to these results, the conclusion is that athletes with better performance show greater imagery ability and that apparently the external visual imagery proved to be the best intervention method among swimming athletes.

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