ABSTRACT
Mental imagery often plays a role in problem solving, particularly when the problem is complex [2] or the subject must devise a procedure for arriving at a solution [3]. For this reason, imagery use is strongly associated with highly creative problem solving [5]. How are problems transformed into imagery, or solved thereafter? Researchers have pointed out that good problem visualizations capitalize on the imagery machinery's ability to detect and reinforce visual properties such as symmetries, similarities, alignments, relations of size, gestalts (e.g., [4]).
