"It is vivid, intense work.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
For each mental image, participants provided ratings for vividness on a scale from 1 (not all vivid) to 7 (extremely vivid) and for pleasantness on a scale of 1 (extremely unpleasant/negative) to 9 (extremely pleasant/positive).
To promote compliance with the imagery task instructions, after each picture word trial, participants had 10 s in which they made a rating of mental image vividness on a scale from 1 (not at all vivid) to 9 (extremely vivid).
After providing a brief description, participants then rate image vividness on a scale from 1 (not at all vivid) to 7 (extremely vivid) and image pleasantness from 1 (extremely unpleasant/negative) to 9 (extremely pleasant/positive).
This was followed by a 1000 ms beep, at which point they had to open their eyes and make a rating of image vividness on a scale from 1 (not at all vivid) to 5 (extremely vivid) to promote task compliance in generating imagery.
"The memories tend to be sensory fragments, vivid smells, vivid images, vivid physical sensations, body sensations".
The other word is much more vivid — too vivid for print here, in fact, but suffice to say it's a scatological slur for a person's head.
Everything, gone, and yet not, because, of course, it's still so vivid, and vivid is what a writer lives for.
It's a vivid account, though not vivid enough to persuade Morton.
Many include incredibly vivid details — too vivid — as well as dramatic narratives that either could not have happened or could not have happened the way Vishniac presented them.
