Dr. Randazza shows participants a stylized map of a fictitious city. The map includes landmarks, such as a post office, a librar
y, a shopping mall, a bus depot, and an airport. Some of the landmarks are close together, such as the library and the post office. Others are far apart, such as the airport and the shopping mall. Dr. Randazza removes the map. Participants are asked to imagine walking from one landmark to another, either a nearby one or a more distant one. Participants press a key when they have reached the destination in their minds. Based on mental imagery, what do you think Dr. Randazza should find? What would such a result say about mental imagery?
Participants should take longer to travel mentally between distant than between close landmarks. This result would suggest that mental imagery reflects the actual actions we perform with respect to real objects.
Explanation:
This happen because when the participants is asked to mentally imagine the travel between distant landmark, those participants need to use more brain power to construct larger numbers of imaginative objects in their mind. The travel between close landmarks tend to utilize significantly lesser brain processing, which make the process become a lot faster.
