Visual imagination can influence visual perception - towards an experimental paradigm to measure imagination.

ABSTRACT: During visual imagination, a perceptual representation is activated in the absence of sensory input. This is sometimes described as seeing with the mind's eye. A number of physiological studies indicate that the brain uses more or less the same neural resources for visual perception of sensory information and visual imagination. The intensity of visual imagination is typically assessed with questionnaires, while more objective measures are missing. Aim of the present study was, to test a new experimental paradigm that may allow to objectively quantify imagination. For this, we used priming and adaptation effects during observation of ambiguous figures. Our perception of an ambiguous stimulus is unstable and alternates spontaneously between two possible interpretations. If we first observe

SUBMITTER: Mozhdehfarahbakhsh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11489727 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature