Sentence examples for generate a mental image from inspiring English sources

They listened to a list of animal names from which to generate a mental image, and listened passively to a list of abstract words.

Subjects were instructed to write NMI (no mental image) beside the scale when they were unable to generate a mental image or when they did not know to what object the name was referring to.

Participants were instructed to generate a mental image combining the picture and the words.

The PIT requires participants deliberately to generate a mental image in response to 30 set test cues for specific negative (e.g. "you will have an argument with a friend") and positive (e.g. "people will admire you") future scenarios.

Typically in response to this type of question a person would generate a mental image of a fox and then examine the shape of the ears within the image in order to produce a response (Kosslyn et al., 2001).

While you're busy generating a mental image of a microphone, it's tricky to fret about your mortgage.

The face-sensitive neurons revved up similarly in both cases as the camera rounded the curve, suggesting that the sheep were generating a mental image in anticipation of seeing a face.

Once generated, a mental image is subject to rapid decay with an average duration of only 250 ms, which corresponds to the time necessary to make an eye movement (Kosslyn, 1994).

Once generated and maintained, a mental image can be inspected to provide a basis for further cognitive processing.

Just as sonograms give people a visual image of their babies, echolocation might give dolphins a mental image of them.

We create a mental image of our friends, and we want to keep them within the bounds of that image.