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April 1991
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In two experiments, we found that people could discover new interpretations of ambiguous figures using mental imagery. Mental imagery is open for inspection, somewhat similarly to viewing a picture or object. Maintaining the image requires extra capacity and may limit the ability of people to discover new interpretations from imagery.
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... Subjects were asked to imagine the capital letter D turned 90 degrees to the left and resting on top of the capital letter J, upon which they were able to see an umbrella in this new construal. Subsequent studies including more complex figures like the duck/rabbit figure showed that such figures are in fact reinterpretable in imagery (i.e., Brandimonte and Gerbino 1993;Chambers and Reisberg 1991;Hyman and Neisser 1991;Peterson, Kihlstrom, Rose, & Glisky, 1992). One of these studies using the duck/rabbit figure found that 40% of participants were capable of detecting the alternate interpretation in visual imagery (Peterson et al. 1992). ...
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April 1991
... Applied to narrative processes, as situated storytellers, people tell particular events to particular people for particular reasons and in particular ways (McLean et al., 2007) that impact longer term memory. The history of telling the memory becomes part of the memory (e.g., Bartlett, 1932;Neisser & Hyman, 1982). ...
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January 2000