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Two Types of Visual Thinkers
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High Imagery Minds
Incessant daydreamers are
often high imagery thinkers. Imagery can be visual
pictures, spatial feelings and associations, or sounds,
words, and music. By itself, imagery has important roles
to play in memory, creativity, and learning, but high
imagery minds can also find that they are more
susceptible to internal distractions and that they may
develop false memories (problems sorting out real from
imagined experiences).
Young children are especially vulnerable to daydreams
because they tend to uses images more when they listen
and watch, and the mechanisms for inhibiting images or
redirecting focus are weaker.
Images are usually multimodal perceptions that involve
seeing, hearing, spatial, and emotional areas of the
brain. Some people experience images very vividly, while
others don't see as much as they feel their imagery.
High imagery minds are often very creative and they may
have very strong episodic or autobiographical memory.
Imagery is not only for artists or musicians; many other
creative or problem solving disciplines like
engineering, science, or mathematics, may also rely
heavily on thinking techniques involving images of
various sorts.
It seems that imagery tends to recede as get older. This
may at least partially be improved by practice.
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