Mental Imagery And Memory. Previous studies have demonstrated that greater levels of background luminance lead to an attenuation of imagery 33 and this is not due to dark adaptation 57. Previous research has failed to show consistent effects upon memory performance of individual differences in the use of mental imagery.
A test of pictorial memory was devised which varied the ease with which the stimulus patterns could be verbally encoded. There appears to be a powerful link between imagery and autobiographical memory. Previous studies have demonstrated that greater levels of background luminance lead to an attenuation of imagery 33 and this is not due to dark adaptation 57.
Baggett 1975 showed that detailed picture memory fades over several days.
The field of autobiographical memory needs to account for disorders of remembering. Their study examined how creating images affected the ability to accurately recall conceptually related word lists as well as rhyming word lists. She showed subjects a short cartoon in one of two versions. Baggett 1975 showed that detailed picture memory fades over several days.