The analogy of digital pictures was used in the text to describe mental images. Examine this analogy. In what ways are digital pictures like mental images and in what ways are they different?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A picture depicts one location within the environment. This is analogous to the spatiotemporal window of an image. The pixels of a digital image are analogous to the storage units of an image. The collection of these storage units produces the subject of the picture or the content of an image. Perhaps the biggest difference between a digital picture and a mental image is that a picture "evenly" represents the visual scene while an image is often "uneven". This is likely due to visual attention selecting some aspects of a visual scene over others.
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What will be an ideal response?
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