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SUBMITTER: Dijkstra N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821778 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dijkstra N N Hinne M M Bosch S E SE van Gerven M A J MAJ
Scientific reports 20191030 1
Mental imagery and visual perception rely on similar neural mechanisms, but the function of this overlap remains unclear. One idea is that imagery can influence perception. Previous research has shown that imagining a stimulus prior to binocular presentation of rivalling stimuli increases the chance of perceiving the imagined stimulus. In this study we investigated how this effect interacts with bottom-up sensory input by comparing psychometric response curves for congruent and incongruent image ...[more]