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The Running Horse Stops: The Hypothetical Role of the Eyes in Imagery of Movement

1999; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 89; Issue: 3_suppl Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pms.1999.89.3f.1088

1558-688X

Vezio Ruggieri,

Animal and Plant Science Education

To examine the hypothetical role of the eyes in visual mental imagery of movement 72 undergraduate women students in psychology were asked to imagine a running horse and then to produce the same mental image without moving the eyes and the head. In 59% of the subjects interesting modifications of the imagined movement appeared: 37% observed an inhibition of the movement and 19% an evident slowing up of the moving figure. The interpretation of this result was made by hypothesizing that the eyes are concretely involved in visual imagery processes.