Decreased associative processing and memory confidence in aphantasia.

ABSTRACT: Visual imagery and mental reconstruction of scenes are considered core components of episodic memory retrieval. Individuals with absent visual imagery (aphantasia) score lower on tests of autobiographical memory, suggesting that aphantasia may be associated with differences in episodic and associative processing. In this online study, we tested aphantasic participants and controls on associative recognition and memory confidence for three types of associations encoded incidentally: associations between visual-visual and audio-visual stimulus pairs, associations between an object and its location on the screen, and intraitem associations. Aphantasic participants had a lower rate of high-confidence hits in all associative memory tests compared with controls. Performance on auditory-visual as

SUBMITTER: Wittmann BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9578376 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature