'Mind's eye' influences visual perception


	'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

einbar

7-13-2008 1:07 AM

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"even a single instance of imagery can tilt how you see the world one way or another, dramatically, if the conditions are right.”

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the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery 
– what we see with the “mind’s eye” – directly impacts our visual perception. 
<BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/07/07/minds-eye-influences-visual-perception.61197">We found that imagery leads to a short-term memory trace that can bias future 
perception,” <A 
href="http://psych-s1.psy.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/pearsoj/index.html">Joel 
Pearson</A>, research associate in the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology, and 
lead author of the study, said. “This is the first research to definitively show 
that imagining something changes vision both while you are imagining it and 
later on.”<BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/07/07/minds-eye-influences-visual-perception.61197">It is well known that a powerful perceptual experience can change the way a 
person sees things later</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/07/07/minds-eye-influences-visual-perception.61197">“Our results show that even a single instance of imagery can tilt how you see 
the world one way or another, dramatically, if the conditions are right.”<BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/07/07/minds-eye-influences-visual-perception.61197">To test how imagery affects perception, Pearson,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7CB4D2E7-C68B-4B4D-8DC9-8002B73822D6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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