Spatial processing, mental imagery, and creativity in individuals with and without sight
Spatial processing, mental imagery, and creativity in individuals with and without sight
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10.1080/09541440600591965
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2007-01-01
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Pring, Linda
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Eardley, Alison F.;Pring, Linda
有人认为，天生失明的人在所有“主动”空间意象任务上都会受到损害（例如，Vecchi，1998）。如果是这样的话，失明的人在图像中操纵、合并或重组信息的能力就会受到限制。这样做的结果是很难仅使用图像来创建新颖的形式，而图像是心理综合任务的基础（Finke & Slayton，1988）。通过探索 12 名早期失明者和 15 名蒙眼参与者在二维和三维版本的心理综合任务中的表现，研究了这种潜在的困难。结果表明，无论视觉状态如何，空间干扰都不利于心理综合任务的表现。此外，虽然那些有视力的人在二维方面比没有视力的人表现更好，但视力在此任务的三维版本上没有提供任何性能优势。换句话说，失明的人在执行所有复杂的空间任务时不会受到损害。
It has been argued that individuals born without sight are impaired on all "active" spatial imagery tasks (e.g., Vecchi, 1998). If this were the case, people without sight would be limited in their capacity to manipulate, amalgamate, or reorganise information within imagery. A consequence of this would be a difficulty in creating novel forms using imagery alone, which is the basis of the mental synthesis task (Finke & Slayton, 1988). This potential difficulty is investigated by exploring the performance of 12 early blind individuals and 15 blindfolded-sighted participants on both two- and three-dimensional versions of the mental synthesis task. Results indicated that, irrespective of visual status, spatial interference was detrimental to performance on the mental synthesis task. Furthermore, although those with sight performed better than those without sight in two dimensions, vision provided no performance advantage on the three-dimensional version of this task. In other words, individuals without sight are not impaired on all complex spatial tasks.