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The Functional Impact of Mental Imagery on Conscious Perception
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Mental imagery has been proposed to contribute to a variety of high-level cognitive functions, including memory encoding and retrieval, navigation, spatial planning, and even social communication and language comprehension. However, it is debated whether mental imagery relies on the same sensory representations as perception, and if so, what functional consequences such an overlap might have on perception itself. We report novel evidence that single instances of imagery can have a pronounced facilitatory influence on subsequent conscious perception. Either seeing or imagining a specific pattern could strongly bias which of two competing stimuli reach awareness during binocular rivalry. Effects of imagery and perception were location and orientation specific, accumulated in strength over time, and survived an intervening visual task lasting several seconds prior to presentation of the rivalry display. Interestingly, effects of imagery differed from those of feature-based attention. The results demonstrate that imagery, in the absence of any incoming visual signals, leads to the formation of a short-term sensory trace that can bias future perception, suggesting a means by which high-level processes that support imagination and memory retrieval may shape low-level sensory representations.
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“The idea that mental imagery plays a functional role in facilitating future perception is supported by a recent study that found that mental imagery biases subsequent perception in a binocular rivalry task [35,38], as well as by the correlation between IM performance and representational precision (Figure S2).”
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- Pearson, J., Clifford, C. W. G., & Tong, F.
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- Vanderbilt University (US)
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
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- mental imagery, conscious perception, binocular rivalry, visual awareness, sensory representation, feature-based attention, memory retrieval, perceptual bias
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- Attention, Humans, Imagination, Orientation, Time Factors, Visual Perception
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