STEP: Can Imagery be Distinguished from Other Forms of Internal Representation [35217]

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Detail
Experiment Author: Adapted from STEP and used with permission of Brian MacWhinney
 
Experiment Description

In this experiment participants are presented an animal's name and then the name of a body part of an animal, e.g., claws, beak, horn, etc. If the body part is associated with the previously mentioned animal, participants press '1' for yes and '2' for no.

Experiment Instructions

This experiment has one block of trials with 22 samples. The Probe1 TextObject samples animal names from three unreferenced lists;  falselist, lowhigh, and highlow List Objects. Animal names are presented for 2000 milliseconds followed by an animal body part that displays for 10,000 milliseconds or until the partcipant responds with a '1' or '2' on their keyboard. Feedback is given to show correct or incorrect answers.

 
Experiment Citation

Kosslyn, S.M. (1976). Can imagery be distinguished from other forms of internal representation? Evidence from studies of information retrieval times. Memory and Cognition, 4, 291-7.

See Also

STEP: Time Required to Prepare for a Rotated Stimulus [35105]

STEP: Mental Imagery and Associative Learning [35060]