visual imagery
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvisualandimagery
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visual
adjective
uk/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/us/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/
relating ...
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imagery
noun[U]
uk/ˈɪm.ɪ.dʒər.i/us/ˈɪm.ə.dʒər.i/
the use of words or pictures in books, films, paintings, etc. to describe ideas ...
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(Definition ofvisualandimageryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvisual imagery
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This hypothesis calls into question the idea thatvisualimageryis based on "tacit" knowledge.
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Visualimageryis perhaps the most defining quality of dream mentation.
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This indicates that activevisualimageryis an integral part of active visual perception.
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This very well may be the case when one considersvisualimageryand visual perception in high-level tasks.
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In reality these unfortunates frequently have normal intelligence with unimpairedvisualimagery.
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There are a number of aspects ofvisualimagerythat have not been covered in the discussion of this section.
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Either way, the end result is a system that can producevisualimagery.
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For instance, the findings reviewed in section 4.3 of the target article are compatible with a role for a motor emulator duringvisualimagery.
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Visualimageryalso involves the off-line operation of an emulator (in this case, a motor-visual emulator).
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Is his omission due to the fact that the classical approach tovisualimagerywould not easily fit the model?
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It is the form of this representation that would dictate the "visual" nature of the phenomenology and the observablevisualimageryeffects.
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The role ofvisualimageryin making up for what diplomacy might not achieve is a central motif.
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This showed that the increase in the planning regions was a result of motor imagery and notvisualimagery.
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Persistent brain activity may be responsible forvisualimagery, filling in, illusory contours, and other such phenomena.
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The latter incorporatesvisualimageryinto the research process as a means of presenting findings in more effective ways than conventional writing permits.
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This suggests that activevisualimageryis an integral part of active visual perception.
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That is, the claim that items ofvisualimageryconstitute knowledge.
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These results openly contradict the notion thatvisualimageryemerges via an "emulation" of normal vision through top-down processes.
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This is, of course, an entirely legitimate use of emulation to produce imagery, in this case specificallyvisualimagery.
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The most likely reason for this failure is that the instructions did not require subjects to evoke anyvisualimageryduring these tasks.
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