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Since Paivio’s (1971) treatise on imagery and verbal processes, a variety of authors have provided reviews of data and theories concerning imagery and memory for verbal materials. In this way, a long-standing area of investigation has come to be considered in a more systematic and critical manner. The tradition of linking imagery and memory, however, goes back at least to Aristotle, who, in his treatise on memory (I, 450a, 20–25) asserted:
Τíνος μŧν οΰν τών τñς ψνχñς έστιν ή μνήυη, φανερòν, δτι οŧπερ χαì ή φαντασία, χαι ϊστι μνημονευτà α αθ’ αύτà uìν δσz έστì φανταστà, χατà συuбτбηχòς ö δσє
“It is therefore clear in which part of the soul memory is, that is, in the same part where also imagination is. In fact, memory objects are per se those which fall into imagination incidentally, those which are not separated from imagination.”
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Marschark, M., Cornoldi, C. (1991). Imagery and Verbal Memory. In: Cornoldi, C., McDaniel, M.A. (eds) Imagery and Cognition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6407-8_5
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