Imagine, and you will find - Lack of attentional guidance through visual imagery in aphantasics.
Aphantasia
Attentional guidance
Imagery debate
Visual attention
Visual imagery
Visual search
Journal
Attention, perception & psychophysics
ISSN: 1943-393X
Titre abrégé: Atten Percept Psychophys
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101495384
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
Historique:
accepted:
24
03
2021
pubmed:
22
4
2021
medline:
28
7
2021
entrez:
21
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Aphantasia is the condition of reduced or absent voluntary imagery. So far, behavioural differences between aphantasics and non-aphantasics have hardly been studied as the base rate of those affected is quite low. The aim of the study was to examine if attentional guidance in aphantasics is impaired by their lack of visual imagery. In two visual search tasks, an already established one by Moriya (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(5), 1127-1142, 2018) and a newly developed one, we examined whether aphantasics are primed less by their visual imagery than non-aphantasics. The sample in Study 1 consisted of 531 and the sample in Study 2 consisted of 325 age-matched pairs of aphantasics and non-aphantasics. Moriya's Task was not capable of showing the expected effect, whereas the new developed task was. These results could mainly be attributed to different task characteristics. Therefore, a lack of attentional guidance through visual imagery in aphantasics can be assumed and interpreted as new evidence in the imagery debate, showing that mental images actually influence information processing and are not merely epiphenomena of propositional processing.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33880710
doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02307-z
pii: 10.3758/s13414-021-02307-z
pmc: PMC8302533
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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