Visual Mental Imagery and Visual Perception: Structural Equivalence Revealed by Scanning Processes

Visual Mental Imagery and Visual Perception: Structural Equivalence Revealed by Scanning Processes

Visual Mental Imagery and Visual Perception: Structural Equivalence Revealed by Scanning Processes

Visual Mental Imagery and Visual Perception: Structural Equivalence Revealed by Scanning Processes

Visual mental imagery and visual perception: structural equivalence revealed by scanning processes.

The research reported in the present article investigates whether information is represented the same way in both visual mental imagery and the early phases of visual perception. In Experiment 1, the same participants scanned over patterns of dots in a mental image (with images based on a just-seen pattern), during perception, and in an iconic image. The time to scan increasing distances increa...

The neural correlates of visual mental imagery: an ongoing debate.

The functional mechanisms and the neural correlates of visual mental imagery (the faculty whereby we can use our "mind's eye" to visualize objects in their absence) are at the centre of a lively debate in cognitive neuroscience. Neurocognitive models have proposed a functional equivalence between visual perception and visual mental imagery, which would be subserved by common neural substrates, ...