Paper examines the re-emergence of imagery as a topic commanding attention in psychology. (Author)

The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the extent to which a subject's ability to conjure up an image of a visual stimulus can substitute for the presence of that stimulus when a comparison with another is required. (Author/RK)

Research indicates that evaluative (emotional) word meaning and denotative meaning (imagery) are distinct mediational mechanisms and can be conditioned. It is hypothesized that the meaning responses can be conditioned concurrently and independently. (Editor/RK)

Article described experiments that investigated the immediate free recall of homogeneous lists of items and found that deep-structure complexity had little effect when imageability was controlled. (Editor/RK)

On the assumption that vividness reports and recall were both mediated by the same covert event - a visual image - these results provide further evidence that images have an important role in memory. (Author)

Some contemporary trends in social and clinical psychology suggest that individual differences in imaging abilities may become increasingly important. Outlines some of the conceptual and methodological problems that must be clarified if productive research is to be undertaken and reports results of three studies designed to isolate tests which…

Investigates A. Richardson's (1969) research on the relationship between imagery and problem solving, i.e., that uncontrolled vivid imagery could impede problem solving by disrupting a profitable line of thought, but that imagery, particularly controlled vivid imagery, could aid problem solving by providing an alternate mode of thinking to verbal…

The author describes a mnemonic technique for remembering people's names. This method was developed by H. Lorayne (1958) and illustrates the effective use of image cues for improving memory. (RK)

Right-handed subjects listened to music with one ear and received subliminal words in the other. The words emerged in subjects' reported imagery of the music more when the words were presented to the right ear (left brain hemisphere). A second experiment eliminated the music. (SJL)

Investigates the effect of imagery ability upon performance in free recall and relates this effect to the distinction between primary and secondary memory. (Author/RK)

Marks (1973) and Gur & Hilgard (1975) have reported success in predicting performance in visual-memory tasks from scores in a questionnare of self-rated vividness of imagery, i.e. the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ; Marks, 1973). These findings were disconfirmed in two experiments in which the VVIQ was used and vivid pictures…

The experiments reported here investigated the influence of two variables upon recognition memory for nouns. (Author/RK)

When scores from a modified (modification affecting response bias) Sheehan/Betts imagery questionnaire were reanalyzed, previous findings--that females report more vivid imagery than males--were not confirmed. It is argued that previously reported sex differences may be artificial in so far as imagery vividness scores are concerned. (Author/KC)