Talk:Dual-coding theory

In the first paragraph of the article, the last sentence begins with:

“Both imagined and verbal codes for representing information …”.

Should “imagined” be “image” or “visual” as in “visual codes”? If not, then I think “imagined codes” need to be defined.

--Gbrauen 16:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you that the sentence is confusing. I looked at the revision history to try to figure it out. Originally there was a sentence that explained that visuals could be real or imagined; essentially they are processed the same by the brain. The revision moved this text further into the article, but added a section about how Paivio saw mental images as codes. I think the revision meant to talk about the new section that was added on codes, but kept some of the verbiage from the section on imagined images that was moved.

I changed the sentence to read: "Both visual and verbal codes for representing information are used to organize incoming information into knowledge that can be acted upon, stored, and retrieved for subsequent use."

--Craig.borchardt 01:20 11 November 2007 (UTC)