Where's Wanda? The influence of visual imagery vividness on visual search speed measured by means of hidden object pictures.
Aphantasia
Mental imagery
Real-world visual search
Vividness of visual imagery
Journal
Attention, perception & psychophysics
ISSN: 1943-393X
Titre abrégé: Atten Percept Psychophys
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101495384
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023
Historique:
accepted:
20
12
2022
entrez:
10
1
2023
pubmed:
11
1
2023
medline:
11
1
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Previous research demonstrated effects of visual imagery on search speed in visual search paradigms. However, these effects were rather small, questioning their ecological validity. Thus, our present study aimed to generalize these effects to more naturalistic material (i.e., a paradigm that allows for top-down strategies in highly complex visual search displays that include overlapping stimuli while simultaneously avoiding possibly confounding search instructions). One hundred and four participants with aphantasia (= absence of voluntary mental imagery) and 104 gender and age-matched controls were asked to find hidden objects in several hidden object pictures with search times recorded. Results showed that people with aphantasia were significantly slower than controls, even when controlling for age and general processing speed. Thus, effects of visual imagery might be strong enough to influence the perception of our real-life surroundings, probably because of the involvement of visual imagery in several top-down strategies.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36627474
doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02645-6
pii: 10.3758/s13414-022-02645-6
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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