ArticleBrain and behavior2023
Measuring imagery strength in schizophrenia: no evidence of enhanced mental imagery priming.
Article in Brain and behavior, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Activation of the inner critic increases speech illusions and negative emotional valence of perceived speech.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
- Why indecisive trials matter: Improving the binocular rivalry imagery priming score for the assessment of aphantasia.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Neurodiversity in mental simulation: conceptual but not visual imagery priming modulates perception across the imagery vividness spectrum.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hippocampal-occipital connectivity reflects autobiographical memory deficits in aphantasia.eLife · 2024Article
- A novel model of divergent predictive perception.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2024Article
- Measuring imagery strength in schizophrenia: no evidence of enhanced mental imagery priming.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionRecent research shows ambivalent results regarding the relationship between mental imagery and schizophrenia. The role of voluntary visual imagery in schizophrenic hallucinations remains unclear. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between visual imagery, schizophrenia, and the occurrence of schizophrenic hallucinations using an objective visual imagery task.
methodsThe sample consisted of 16 participants with schizophrenia (59.1% female; M
resultsParticipants with schizophrenia showed more hallucinatory experiences but did not score higher on either the VVIQ or the BRT than participants without schizophrenia. A correlation between the VVIQ and the BRT was found, validating the measurement of visual imagery and enabling the interpretation that visual imagery vividness is not enhanced in people with schizophrenia.
conclusionThe association between mental imagery vividness and schizophrenia found in previous studies may be based on other facets of mental imagery than visual imagery.
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