Investigating how visual imagery influences cognition

这个项目将描述视觉意象在其他认知功能中扮演的角色，即视觉工作记忆和注意力。这将通过研究两个具有极端视觉意象形式的特殊人群来完成：失语症和通感。这项工作将开发创新的心理物理学和生理学技术，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视觉图像、工作记忆和注意力的神经特征。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。

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.