Mental imagery and visual working memory

“记住”信息受到容量、持续时间和精确度的严重限制。视觉工作记忆的容量和精确度的限制仍然不清楚。同样，对视觉工作记忆的神经关联的研究也产生了相互矛盾的结果。这一建议将表明，视觉工作记忆的精确度、容量和神经关联的限制是由视觉心理意象驱动的。通过证明心理意象是全面理解工作记忆缺失的一环，这个项目将展示心理意象的强度限制了视觉信息可以被“记住”的程度。这项工作将统一两个激烈的科学辩论，并产生一张完整的工作记忆地图。

Remembering information “in mind” is severely limited by restrictions in capacity, duration and precision. The limits on capacity and precision in visual working memory remain unclear. Likewise, the search for the neural correlates of visual working memory has produced conflicting results. This proposal will show that the limits in precision, capacity and the neural correlates of visual working memory are driven by visual mental imagery. By showing that mental imagery is the missing link to a comprehensive understanding of working memory, This project will show that mental imagery strength limits how much visual information can be held "in mind”. This work will unify two heated scientific debates and produce a complete map of working memory.