Antonio Cardenal López

VIVIDNESS OF VISUAL AND HAPTIC IMAGERY OF MOVEMENT

This study investigated the relationships between visual and haptic imagery of movement. A total of 338 subjects, all university students aged between 18 and 26 years, completed the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire, which evaluates capacity for visual imaging, and a modification of this questionnaire, the Vividness of Haptic Movement Imagery Questionnaire, designed to evaluate capacity for haptic imaging. Scores on the two questionnaires were significantly correlated .60.

Imagery factors in the Spanish version of the Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire.

The factor structure and internal consistency reliability of the Spanish version of the Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire was analyzed. 969 male and female high school students completed the questionnaire and the Gordon Test of Visual Imagery Control. Factor analysis indicated that the questionnaire comprises five factors: “interest in words,” “dream vividness and frequency,” “verbal fluency,” “task performance difficulty,” and “ways of thinking and acting.” The internal consistency was very low (Cronbach α = .30). The correlation between scores and those on the Gordon test was statistically significant because N was large but very weak (r = .08, p < .05). The questionnaire measured five distinct factors, and this should be taken into account when using the Spanish version rather than a coherent dimension.

Non-Compliance with Instructions in Studies of the Use of Imagery as a Memory Aid

Subjects compliance with instructions was evaluated in tests of the efficacy of normal or bizarre imagery as memory aids. High-school students (total sample size = 500) were presented with lists of thirty-two word pairs, and instructed to form normal or bizarre images as aids to remembering the words in each pair. Subjects also completed a questionnaire designed to evaluate the type of imagery used in each case. On the basis of the completed questionnaires, two independent judges then classified each subject as a “complier” or “non-complier.” The proportion of non-compliers was significantly larger among subjects instructed to use bizarre images than among subjects instructed to use normal images. Recall rates were significantly higher 1) among subjects who used bizarre images than among subjects who used normal images. 2) among compliers than among non-compliers, and 3) immediately after presentation of the word list than one week later.

TelCorreo: A Bilingual E-mail Client over the Telephone

In this paper we present TelCorreo [1]: an e-mail client that allows the Galician Internet users to read their e-mail messages from locations where there is no web-connected computer available. This task is performed using speech through the telephone, and the system uses speech technology developed in Galician, including a speech recognition system and a text-to-speech converter.