Skip to content
Get in touch

Research › QEEG, Methods & Mechanisms

Imaging ability and visual processing of EEG waveforms

STS Instructor Authored by Thomas Collura

Share

Suggested message

Check out this Knowledge Base article from StressTherapy Solutions: Imaging ability and visual processing of EEG waveforms.

Facebook LinkedIn Email

Facebook doesn't let websites fill in your post. Use Copy message, then paste it in.

Study at a glance

Area
QEEG, Methods & Mechanisms
Study type
Observational study
Authors
Wallace B, Collura TF
Journal
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
Year
1993
Participants
5 neurologists
Population
Adults
Protocol
video observation of clinical EEG reading; Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire

Key findings

  • 3 of 5 readers used a fast holistic style; 2 used a slower detail-focused style
  • Detail readers spent about 8.5 s per page versus about 2.3 s for holistic readers
  • Detail readers took more notes, made more measurements and flipped back more often
  • Holistic reading was linked to more vivid visual imagery scores

DOI 10.3758/bf03334123 →

Five experienced neurologists were filmed by an overhead camera while reading routine paper EEG records, and they also completed a questionnaire on how vividly they form mental images. Two reading styles emerged: a fast holistic style with few notes and little flipping back, and a slow detailed style with more notes, measurements and back-and-forth page checking. The holistic readers tended to score higher on visual imagery, though the sample was very small and diagnostic accuracy was not checked.