Vividness of visual imagery questionnaire scores and their relationship to visual short-term memory performance.

ABSTRACT: Mechanisms underlying visual imagery, the ability to create vivid mental representations of a scene in the absence of sensory input, remain to be fully understood. Some previous studies have proposed that visual imagery might be related to visual short-term memory (STM), with a common mechanism involving retention of visual information over short periods of time. Other observations have shown a strong relationship between visual imagery and functional activity in the hippocampus and primary visual cortex, both regions also associated with visual STM. Here we examined the relationship of visual imagery to STM and hippocampal and primary visual cortex volumes, first in a large sample of healthy people across a large age range (N = 229 behavioural data; N = 56 MRI data in older participants)

SUBMITTER: Tabi YA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8776564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature