title: The running horse stops: the hypothetical role of the eyes in imagery of movement.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Rome La Sapienza.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ruggieri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006257:Head / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009039:Motion Perception; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D009903:Optical Illusions; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology