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Imagery in multi-modal object learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Martin Jüttner  and
Ingo Rentschler
Martin Jüttner
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Research Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, B13 9DH United Kingdom
Ingo Rentschler
Affiliation:
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Universität München, 80336 Munich, Germanyingo@imp.med.uni-muenchen.de
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Abstract

Spatial objects may not only be perceived visually but also by touch. We report recent experiments investigating to what extent prior object knowledge acquired in either the haptic or visual sensory modality transfers to a subsequent visual learning task. Results indicate that even mental object representations learnt in one sensory modality may attain a multi-modal quality. These findings seem incompatible with picture-based reasoning schemas but leave open the possibility of modality-specific reasoning mechanisms.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 197 - 198
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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