PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE FOR A SHARED REPRESENTATIONAL MEDIUM FOR MENTAL IMAGES AND PERCEPTS
PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE FOR A SHARED REPRESENTATIONAL MEDIUM FOR MENTAL IMAGES AND PERCEPTS
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-3445.114.1.91
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
FARAH, MJ
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作者:
FARAH, MJ
The intuition that imagery is similar to perception has led many psychologists to assume that imaging an object consists of activating some of the same representational structures that are activated during the perception of that object. This assumption was tested in 2 experiments with 23 undergraduates by measuring the effects of visual imagery on concurrent visual perception. The experimental task consisted of a 2-interval forced-choice detection task (no stimulus identification required) during which the S imaged a particular stimulus. In Exp I, a matching image led to better detection than a nonmatching image. Interactions between imagery and perception implied a common locus of activity, and the content-specific interactions obtained implied that the common locus consisted of representational structures. In Exp II, a matching image facilitated perception only when the image and the stimulus were in the same position, suggesting that the shared representational structures occurred at an analog level of perceptual representation.(29 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)