title: An alternate-form instrument to assess vividness and controllability of mental imagery in seven modalities.
abstract: A review of the literature concerning assessment of the ability to produce mental images demonstrated that in both the clinical and research areas new instruments were needed. The problem was to produce an alternate-form measure that would enable simultaneous measurement of controllability and vividness on the same test items in seven modalities. The results seem to suggest that for the Survey of Mental Imagery alternate forms are strictly comparable, reliable, have a known factor structure, and combine simultaneous measurement of controllability and vividness in at least six sensory modalities.
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007699:Kinesthesis; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000379:methods*; D012677:Sensation; D012903:Smell; D013649:Taste; D014110:Touch; D014796:Visual Perception