Title

Imagery-induced interference on a visual detection task

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Spatial Vision

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Abstract

The literature on the interaction between visual imagery and visual perception provides conflicting outcomes. Some studies show imagery interferes with perception whereas others show facilitation on perceptual tasks. The effects of visual imagery on a detection task were examined in six experiments. When either a bar image (Experiment 1) or an image of the letter '1' (Experiment 3) overlapped with the targets, interference was discovered; however, images not overlapping the target did not effect detection (Experiments 2 and 4). Increasing the number of target locations caused the interfering effects of the image to disappear; however, there was no evidence of facilitation (Experiment 5). Physical stimuli interfered with detection whether there was overlap or not (Experiment 6). The results indicate that imagery induced interference may be lessened with more complex visual displays.

Volume

14

Issue

2

First Page

101

Last Page

119

DOI

10.1163/156856801300202887

ISSN

01691015

PubMed ID

11450798

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