Investigating how visual imagery influences cognition

研究视觉意象如何影响认知

• 批准号: DE240100606
• 负责人: Dr Rebecca Keogh
• 金额: $ 29.52万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE240100606
• 关键词: Investigating; how; visual; imagery; influences

This project will characterise the role visual imagery plays in other cognitive functions, namely visual working memory and attention. This will be done by studying two special populations that have extreme forms of visual imagery: aphantasia and synaesthesia. This work will develop innovative psychophysics and physiological techniques to identify different cognitive strategies used to solve visual working memory and attention tasks. Further magnetoencephalography (MEG) decoding approaches will be used to compare and contrast the neural signatures of voluntary and involuntary visual imagery, working memory, and attention. This work will help us understand why some individuals have better imaginations, memory, and attention than others.

这个项目将探讨视觉表象在其他认知功能中的作用，即视觉工作记忆和注意力。这将通过研究两个具有极端形式的视觉意象的特殊人群来完成：失语症和通感。这项工作将开发创新的心理物理学和生理技术，以确定用于解决视觉工作记忆和注意力任务的不同认知策略。进一步的脑磁图（MEG）解码方法将被用来比较和对比自愿和非自愿的视觉图像，工作记忆和注意力的神经签名。这项工作将帮助我们理解为什么有些人比其他人有更好的想象力，记忆力和注意力。