ArticleJournal of vision2022
Imagery adds stimulus-specific sensory evidence to perceptual detection.
Article in Journal of vision, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Imagery: Interference, facilitation, and theory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Review
- Vividness of mental imagery reflects a broad range of internally generated visual experiences.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Coordinates Contextual Mental Imagery for Single-Beat Manipulation during Rhythmic Sensorimotor Synchronization.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Confidence ratings do not distinguish imagination from reality.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Introspective inference counteracts perceptual distortion.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Modelling perception as a hierarchical competition differentiates imagined, veridical, and hallucinated percepts.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2023Article
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Abstract
Internally generated imagery and externally triggered perception rely on overlapping sensory processes. This overlap poses a challenge for perceptual reality monitoring: determining whether sensory signals reflect reality or imagination. In this study, we used psychophysics to investigate how imagery and perception interact to determine visual experience. Participants were instructed to detect oriented gratings that gradually appeared in noise while simultaneously either imagining the same grating, a grating perpendicular to the to-be-detected grating, or nothing. We found that, compared to both incongruent imagery and no imagery, congruent imagery caused a leftward shift of the psychometric function relating stimulus contrast to perceptual threshold. We discuss how this effect can best be explained by a model in which imagery adds sensory signal to the perceptual input, thereby increasing the visibility of perceived stimuli. These results suggest that, in contrast to changes in sensory signals caused by self-generated movement, the brain does not discount the influence of self-generated sensory signals on perception.
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