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	<title>Imagery Lab &#187; Visualization Abilities</title>
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		<title>Neural Correlates of Object vs. Spatial Visualization Abilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Neuroscience research demonstrates that the visual areas of the brain are divided into two distinct pathways. The dorsal, or spatial, and ventral, or object pathways. The object pathway  runs from occipital lobe to inferior temporal lobe, processing visual appearances of objects in terms of color, detail, shape, and size. The spatial pathway runs from occipital <a href="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/?page_id=663" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Developmental Patterns of Object vs. Spatial Visualization Abilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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We analyzed data from a large sample of children and adults (10 to 60 years old) and revealed differences between object and spatial developmental curves. Performance on  spatial imagery tasks
                
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		<title>Ecological Validation of Individual Differences in Object vs. Spatial Ability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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We investigated the relationship between visual-object ability, visual-spatial ability, and different fields of study/areas of specialization in college students, professionals, and gifted children, specializing in visual art, science and humanities.

Our results (Kozhevnikov, Blazhenkova, &#38; Becker, 2010) showed that in all age groups, visual-object ability discriminatively relates to specialization in visual art, in the same way <a href="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/?page_id=659" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Development of Spatial Ability Tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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In our lab, we design, refine, and validate  assessments of visualization abilities.  In particular, we design and validate tests in  immersive and non-immersive environments.
                
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		<title>Spatial Navigation and Individual Differences in Environmental Representations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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This project involves studies of navigational abilities in virtual (driving  simulator) and in real large-scale environments. We examined whether procedural- and survey-type representations of an environment would be present after traversing a novel route. We also examined whether individual differences in visual-spatial abilities predicted the types of representations formed. Our results challenge experience-based, sequential <a href="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/?page_id=655" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Training in Three-Dimensional Immersive Virtual Environments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Most studies on training imagery skills (either through a particular set of training exercises or indirectly through geometry, chemistry or physics courses) have produced at best small gains in spatial skills and limited transfer of training to a different stimulus set. We suggest that the reason for previous limitations of training  visual-spatial abilities using <a href="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/?page_id=649" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Visualization in Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Our research suggests that visual artists rely on  object, rather than spatial, visualization 
                
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		<title>Object-Spatial Dissociation in Individual Differences in Visual Imagery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Based on recent data from cognitive neuroscience and behavioral research about the existence of two anatomically and neurologically distinct visual,  object and spatial visual system
                
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		<title>Allocentric vs. Egocentric Spatial Processing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Our research on allocentric-egocentric spatial processing  includes  three main directions:

 Development of allocentric and egocentric spatial assessments
Spatial Navigation and Individual Differences in Environmental Representations 
Spatial Updating


This line of research focuses on examining the dissociation between the two types of spatial imagery transformations: allocentric spatial transformations, which involve an object-to-object representational system and encode <a href="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/?page_id=308" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Kozhevnikov, Louchakova, Josipovic, &#38; Motes (2009) examined the effects of meditation on mental imagery, evaluating Buddhist monks’ reports concerning their extraordinary imagery skills. Practitioners of Buddhist meditation were divided into two groups according to their preferred meditation style: Deity Yoga (focused attention on an internal visual image) or Open Presence (evenly distributed attention, not directed <a href="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/?page_id=304" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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