ABSTRACT
The central theme of the research I am reporting evolved from a study that Al Paivio and I did when I was a graduate student in his lab. In that study (Paivio & Ernest, 1971) we asked the following question: Are high imagers more accurate than low imagers in their visual recognition of nonverbal stimuli such as pictures and geometric forms, particularly if these stimuli are presented to the right hemisphere of the brain? In other words, is high visual imagery ability associated with superior right hemispheric functioning?
