A rat in the sewer: How mental imagery interacts with object recognition.

ABSTRACT: The role of mental imagery has been puzzling researchers for more than two millennia. Both positive and negative effects of mental imagery on information processing have been discussed. The aim of this work was to examine how mental imagery affects object recognition and associative learning. Based on different perceptual and cognitive accounts we tested our imagery-induced interaction hypothesis in a series of two experiments. According to that, mental imagery could lead to (1) a superior performance in object recognition and associative learning if these objects are imagery-congruent (semantically) and to (2) an inferior performance if these objects are imagery-incongruent. In the first experiment, we used a static environment and tested associative learning. In the second experiment, su

SUBMITTER: Karimpur H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5874016 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature