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Video Clips

Alan Baddeley: Visual Imagery

Memory expert Dr. Baddeley discusses visual imagery in relation to other working memory processes.

Mental Imagery Research

Eye tracking research reveals individual differences in use of visual imagery.

Stephen Kosslyn: The Imagery Debate

Describes classic studies which reveal mental imagery is a constructive process embedded within the visual processing system.

Stephen Kosslyn: Mental Imagery and Perception

Short interview that summarizes Kosslyn’s theory of mental imagery.

Brain Games – Visual Imagery in Encoding (Memory)

Demonstrates how visual imagery can boost memory formation.

Bizarre Memory Palaces

Demonstration of how adding bizarre images to the Methods of Loci boots memory.

Audio Clips

Decoding Visual Imagery during Sleep

Comparing fMRI scans of conscious to sleeping test subjects, researchers decode visual dreams.

Visual Imagery Can Sway Your Moral Judgment

Visual imagery can trigger emotional responses, rather than rational thinking, in moral reasoning tasks.