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Experiments were conducted to investigate the temporal characteristics (latency and duration) of visual images in response to verbal stimuli. The results show that these two parameters are not influenced by the same factors. Latency is sensitive to imagery value and emotional tonality of stimuli, whereas duration increases with emotional intensity and dynamic content of stimuli. In addition, latency is affected by self-report imagery vividness, and duration by individual mental concentration abilities. These findings strengthen the hypothesis of a functional distinction between generation and maintenance processes in visual imagery.
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Cocude, M. (1988). Generating and Maintaining Visual Images: The Incidence of Individual and Stimulus Characteristics. In: Denis, M., Engelkamp, J., Richardson, J.T.E. (eds) Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches to Mental Imagery. NATO ASI Series, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1391-2_19
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