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The Dispersion of Eye Movements During Visual Imagery is Related to Individual Differences in Spatial Imagery Ability

Author

Summary, in English

This study explored individual differences in eye movements during visual imagery. Eye movements were recorded for participants who recalled a picture from memory while looking at a blank screen. All participants were tested for working memory capacity and the OSIVQ (Blazhenkova & Kozhevnikov, 2009) was used as an assessment for individual differences in object imagery, spatial imagery and verbal cognitive style. Results revealed a negative correlation between the overall spatial dispersion of eye movements and the spatial imagery score. Consequently, those with a lower spatial imagery score employed a larger degree of eye movements to blank spaces than those with a higher spatial imagery score. No relationship was found between eye movements and the other aspects. We propose that weaker spatial imagery ability increases the “need” to execute eye movements during recall and discuss this finding in relation to the current literature on eye movements to ‘nothing’.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

1200-1205

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1200-1205). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Human Aspects of ICT

Conference name

33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2011

Conference date

2011-07-21

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning