INTRODUCTION This paper brings together an account of experimental work in the development of reasoning powers with a theoretical description of thinking derived from both abstract and psychological material. The general model of the mind which is ad-opted here is derived from the descriptions given in J. G. Bennett’s Dramatic Universe, Vol. III. The “forms of thought” employed are derived from...

It is reported that the sound of a car door closing is one of the main factors to determine the overall impression of the car. Much effort has been made to improve the quality of this sound. In this study, sounds of the closing of the doors of various passenger cars were recorded and presented via headphones in a sound-proof room. Based on these sounds, German and Japanese groups of participant...

The influence of imagery on perception depends on the content of the mental image. Sixty-three students responded to the location of the 2 hands of a clock while visualizing the correct or an incorrect clock. Reaction time was shorter with valid cueing. Could this have resulted from visual acquisition strategies such as planning visual saccades or shifting covert attention? No. In this study, a...

OBJECTIVES To study the radiographic location of the mental foramen and appearance of the inferior alveolar canal and the relationship between image gray values and the clarity of inferior alveolar canal on the digital panoramic images and to evaluate if the histogram equalization of the digital image would improve the visualization of the inferior alveolar canal outline on the digital panorami...

Background: Research indicates that body dissatisfaction is correlated with and often predictive of both physical and mental health problems. “Fat talk,” a well-studied form of body image talk in adolescents and university-aged women, has been implicated as contributing to body dissatisfaction and mediating the relationship between body dissatisfaction and other mental health problems. Limited ...

Background Morbid obesity is rising around the world. It can cause unpleasant appearance and body image. Most of the studies have aimed to evaluate the psychopathology of overweight and obesity and paying attention to mental well-being in morbid obese individuals is rare. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the relationship between body image and psychological well-being in morbid obese patie...

Young adult and elderly Ss performed 4 visual mental imagery tasks, each of which tapped different processes. The elderly had relatively impaired image rotation and image activation (the process of accessing and activating stored visual memories), and there was a hint that aging may impair the ability to maintain images. In contrast, the elderly were able to compose (the process of generating t...

Recent studies have shown that the mental imagery of people who are blind and those who are sighted share some of the same characteristics, for example, in the memory of concrete or abstract words, or the increase of response time in mental rotation tasks as a function of the angle of rotation (Cornoldi & Vecchi, 2003). However, some specific features of blind people's mental imagery have been ...