Mental imagery has, until recently, fallen within the purview of philosophy and cognitive
psychology. Both enterprises have raised important questions about imagery, but have not made …

Twelve right‐handed men participated in two mental rotation tasks as their regional cerebral
blood flow (rCBF) was monitored using positron emission tomography. In one task, …

… information were excluded; this criterion led us to exclude studies of mental rotation in which
stimuli were presented purely perceptually (for a review of such studies, see Thompson & …

This paper presents a review and critique of statistical null hypothesis testing in ecological
studies in general, and wildlife studies in particular, and describes an alternative. Our review …

When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the
window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost …

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess the maximal degree of
shared neural processing in visual mental imagery and visual perception. Participants either …

WE report here the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to reveal that the primary
visual cortex is activated when subjects close their eyes and visualize objects. The size of the …

Mental imagery is an important cognitive method for problem solving, and the mental rotation
of complex objects, as originally described by Shepard and Metzler (1971), is among the …

Cerebral blood flow was measured using positron emission tomography (PET) in three
experiments while subjects performed mental imagery or analogous perceptual tasks. In …

This book is written to serve as a general reference for biologists and resource managers
with relatively little statistical training. It focuses on both basic concepts and practical …