Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al. (2007).

IF 3.7 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1037/xge0001756

Elena Azañón,Zoe Pounder,Alec Figueroa,Reshanne R Reeder

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Vivid visual mental imagery is thought to influence perceptual processing, but much of the current knowledge on this comes from one highly cited, though underpowered (N = 8) study from 2007, which found that more vivid imagery increases interference between imagined and perceptual content. However, that study has not been repeated since. We therefore conducted a conceptual (Experiment 1) and direct (Experiment 2) replication study. In Experiment 1, we recruited 185 online participants across the mental imagery spectrum, including individuals with self-reported aphantasia (impoverished or absent mental imagery) and hyperphantasia (extremely vivid imagery). In Experiment 2, we recruited 56 participants, 28 with self-reported aphantasia and 28 gender- and age-matched typical imagers. Consistent with the original 2007 study's interpretation, we predicted that those with more vivid imagery would exhibit stronger imagery-perception interference, as measured by decreased performance in a priming task when a color and word were congruent (e.g., red prime, word "RED") compared to incongruent (e.g., blue prime, word "RED"). We were unable to replicate this effect in either experiment. Instead, we observed performance benefits for color-word congruency across the mental imagery spectrum, with no difference in the magnitude of this effect across imagery ability or vividness, even among those with extreme imagery variations (aphantasia, hyperphantasia). Interestingly, we observed a relationship between a measure of mental imagery externalism and the congruency effect, suggesting that individuals with the ability to project their mental images into the external environment (i.e., prophantasia) may exhibit stronger congruency effects. The results of this study challenge our current understanding of the role of mental imagery in perception. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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心理意象生动度的个体差异并不能预测对意象的知觉干扰：崔等人（2007）的重复研究。

人们认为，生动的视觉心理意象会影响感知过程，但目前关于这方面的大部分知识都来自2007年的一项研究，该研究被大量引用，但力度不足（N = 8），该研究发现，更生动的意象会增加想象和感知内容之间的干扰。然而，从那以后，这项研究就再也没有被重复过。因此，我们进行了概念（实验1）和直接（实验2）重复研究。在实验1中，我们招募了185名心理意象谱的在线参与者，其中包括自我报告幻觉（缺乏或缺乏心理意象）和幻觉过度（极度生动的意象）的个体。在实验2中，我们招募了56名参与者，其中28人有自我报告的幻觉，28人是性别和年龄匹配的典型成像者。与2007年最初的研究解释一致，我们预测那些具有更生动形象的人会表现出更强的图像感知干扰，这是通过在启动任务中，当颜色和单词一致时（例如，红色启动，单词“red”）比不一致时（例如，蓝色启动，单词“red”）的表现下降来衡量的。我们无法在两个实验中复制这种效果。相反，我们观察到，在整个心理意象谱中，颜色词一致性对表现有好处，在意象能力或生动度方面，这种影响的幅度没有差异，即使在那些有极端意象变化的人（幻想症，过度幻想症）中也是如此。有趣的是，我们观察到心理意象外部性与一致性效应之间的关系，表明具有将心理意象投射到外部环境（即预测性）能力的个体可能表现出更强的一致性效应。这项研究的结果挑战了我们目前对心理意象在感知中的作用的理解。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

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6.20

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4.90%

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300

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.