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The Influence Of Visual Perspective On The Cognitive Effort Required For Mental Representation, Jeffrey P. Hong
The Influence Of Visual Perspective On The Cognitive Effort Required For Mental Representation, Jeffrey P. Hong
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Mental representation is the process by which an individual simulates an event in their mind’s eye. This process is the foundation of the ability to remember the past, engage in prospective thinking, or imagine fictitious scenarios. An individual can mentally represent any event through their own eyes—the first-person perspective or from the viewpoint of an external observer—the third-person perspective. The perspective of representation influences outcomes related to memory, visuospatial processing, affect, social cognition, clinical diagnoses, and language processing. In turn, an individual’s tendency to favour either perspective is shaped by related factors.
The current research consists of four experiments, designed …
Imagining Accomplishments From Differing Visual And Temporal Perspectives, Deanna C. Hall
Imagining Accomplishments From Differing Visual And Temporal Perspectives, Deanna C. Hall
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The current research examined the relationship between grammatical aspect (GA) (imperfective vs. past perfect) and accomplishment verbs in event representation in Experiment 1, and then investigated the influence of visual perspective taking on this representation process in Experiment 2. Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded with slow cortical potentials (SCPs) acting as a measure of cognitive processing during the imagination period, and behavioural measure questionnaires provided ratings of vividness, temporal component, and importance of the imagined events.
It was hypothesized for Experiment 1 that imagining imperfective events would result in more negative SCP amplitudes than when imagining events with past perfect aspect, …
Time, Perspectives, Verbs, And Imagining Events, Jeffrey P. Hong
Time, Perspectives, Verbs, And Imagining Events, Jeffrey P. Hong
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
During the processing of verbs, readers form internal representations of the events described by those verbs. Two key elements in the construction of event representations are temporal information, given by the verbs that describe the represented events, and the visual perspective from which the events are represented. The current study is composed of two experiments aimed at examining the roles these two factors play in event representation. Specifically, the study aimed to determine how temporal information and visual perspective are represented during event imagination.
Experiment 1 investigated the role of temporal information associated with verbs, given by grammatical aspect (GA) …