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|content=This is an Open University web tutorial with exercises to explore and explain 'visualisation'. Imagery is a powerful force for perception and understanding. Being able to see something mentally is a common metaphor for understanding it. Visualising means summoning up a mental image of something. Some people can close their eyes and “see” a picture, but for others it has much more to do with imagining, than seeing. Try to picture a cube, the seven-times table, a graph of sin x. Now describe what you “see”...  
|content=This is an Open University web tutorial with exercises to explore and explain 'visualisation'. Imagery is a powerful force for perception and understanding. Being able to see something mentally is a common metaphor for understanding it. Visualising means summoning up a mental image of something. Some people can close their eyes and “see” a picture, but for others it has much more to do with imagining, than seeing. Try to picture a cube, the seven-times table, a graph of sin x. Now describe what you “see”...  
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