REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Matlin, M. W., & Farmer, T. A. (2016). Cognition. (9th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Cognitive Psychology Class Response to 2 peers needed: Please write a response to each peer 1. Tiffany The analog code, which most theorists support, states that mental images closely resemble the physical object. Support for this can be found in neuroimaging research. Research has shown that the same part of the brain, the primary visual cortex, is activated when people view physical objects and when they engage in detailed visual imagery. Seventy and 90% of specific brain areas are activated during visual imagery and actual visual perception. Additionally, people with prosopagnosia, while able to perceive most objects normally and form mental images for them, have trouble constructing visual imagery for faces. This is consistent with their inability to recognize human faces visually. Studies have also shown that people with a damaged visual cortex have corresponding difficulties with visual perception and imagery. 2. Jennifer • According to the research in cognitive neuroscience, what evidence do we have that visual imagery resembles perception In examining the question at hand, we must define the two terms. According to Matlin and Farmer (2016), "visual imagery is the visual representation of visual stimuli"(p.552). Then in reading the glossary, Matlin and Farmer (2016) explain that perception is; using ones schema to collect and "interpret stimuli gathered by the senses" (p.546). In reading the chapter, there are a couple of examples of how the brain recognizes the outline of a state on the map, which is a visual representation of the state of Nevada and California on the map. The prior knowledge of having seen the shape of the states on a map, allows one to know that it is those states without the words. Furthermore, perception and visual imagery are not the same, but is a tool that is used by the senses to perceive an image. In examining how visual image resembles perception in American Sign Language. ASL a visual spatial language uses perception and visual representation of concepts that is tied directly into its language. A person that is telling a story paints the perspective of what is happening through imagery. To mentally rotate objects in a scene to tell a story one must mentally be able to perceive and move those objects in space to tell the story. In examining the chapter, it is hard for me to answer the question clearly without added my own schema in this post to analyse the question.
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