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The Functional Impact of Mental Imagery on Conscious Perception

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Pearson, Joel, Clifford, Colin W.G., Tong, Frank·2008·Current Biology

DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.048PMC PMC2519957

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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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Authors: Pearson, J., Clifford, C. W. G., & Tong, F.
Affiliations: The University of Sydney (AU)
Vanderbilt University (US)
Corresponding author: Pearson, Joel
ORCID: Pearson, Joel
Clifford, Colin W.G.
Tong, Frank
Venue: Current Biology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2008-07
Volume: 18
Issue: 13
Pages: 982-986
ISSN: 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.048
PMC: PMC2519957
OpenAlex: W2170666077
Cited by: 409
References: 47
Citations by year: 2026: 22 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 46 · 2023: 84 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 12
FWCI: 4.65
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Locations: Current Biology (publishedVersion)
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Funders: National Health and Medical Research Council (457146)
National Institutes of Health (NEI R01 EY017082, R01 EY14202)
Australian Research Council
Topics: 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
Keywords: mental imagery, conscious perception, binocular rivalry, visual awareness, sensory representation, feature-based attention, memory retrieval, perceptual bias
MeSH terms: Attention, Humans, Imagination, Orientation, Time Factors, Visual Perception

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