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Article: The Role of Imagery in Threat-Related Perceptual Decision Making
Title | The Role of Imagery in Threat-Related Perceptual Decision Making |
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Keywords | Vividness of imagery Mental templates Perception Top-down processing |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Citation | Emotion, 2020, v. 20 n. 8, p. 1495-1501 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2019 American Psychological Association. Visual perception is heavily influenced by "top-down" factors, including goals, expectations, and prior knowledge about the environmental context. Recent research has demonstrated the beneficial role threat-related cues play in perceptual decision making; however, the psychological processes contributing to this differential effect remain unclear. Since visual imagery helps to create perceptual representations or "templates" based on prior knowledge (e.g., cues), the present study examines the role vividness of visual imagery plays in enhanced perceptual decision making following threatening cues. In a perceptual decision-making task, participants used threat-related and neutral cues to detect perceptually degraded fearful and neutral faces presented at predetermined perceptual thresholds. Participants' vividness of imagery was measured by the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire-2 (VVIQ-2). Our results replicated prior work demonstrating that threat cues improve accuracy, perceptual sensitivity, and speed of perceptual decision making compared to neutral cues. Furthermore, better performance following threat and neutral cues was associated with higher VVIQ-2 scores. Importantly, more precise and rapid perceptual decision making following threatening cues was associated with greater VVIQ-2 scores, even after controlling for performance related to neutral cues. This association may be because greater imagery ability allows one to conjure more vivid threat-related templates, which facilitate subsequent perception. While the detection of threatening stimuli is well studied in the literature, our findings elucidate how threatening cues occurring prior to the stimulus aid in subsequent perception. Overall, these findings highlight the necessity of considering top-down threat-related factors in visual perceptual decision making. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/277707 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.887 |
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dc.contributor.author | Imbriano, Gabriella | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sussman, Tamara J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Jin, Jingwen | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mohanty, Aprajita | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-27T08:29:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-27T08:29:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Emotion, 2020, v. 20 n. 8, p. 1495-1501 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1528-3542 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/277707 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2019 American Psychological Association. Visual perception is heavily influenced by "top-down" factors, including goals, expectations, and prior knowledge about the environmental context. Recent research has demonstrated the beneficial role threat-related cues play in perceptual decision making; however, the psychological processes contributing to this differential effect remain unclear. Since visual imagery helps to create perceptual representations or "templates" based on prior knowledge (e.g., cues), the present study examines the role vividness of visual imagery plays in enhanced perceptual decision making following threatening cues. In a perceptual decision-making task, participants used threat-related and neutral cues to detect perceptually degraded fearful and neutral faces presented at predetermined perceptual thresholds. Participants' vividness of imagery was measured by the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire-2 (VVIQ-2). Our results replicated prior work demonstrating that threat cues improve accuracy, perceptual sensitivity, and speed of perceptual decision making compared to neutral cues. Furthermore, better performance following threat and neutral cues was associated with higher VVIQ-2 scores. Importantly, more precise and rapid perceptual decision making following threatening cues was associated with greater VVIQ-2 scores, even after controlling for performance related to neutral cues. This association may be because greater imagery ability allows one to conjure more vivid threat-related templates, which facilitate subsequent perception. While the detection of threatening stimuli is well studied in the literature, our findings elucidate how threatening cues occurring prior to the stimulus aid in subsequent perception. Overall, these findings highlight the necessity of considering top-down threat-related factors in visual perceptual decision making. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Emotion | - |
dc.subject | Vividness of imagery | - |
dc.subject | Mental templates | - |
dc.subject | Perception | - |
dc.subject | Top-down processing | - |
dc.title | The Role of Imagery in Threat-Related Perceptual Decision Making | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1037/emo0000610 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 31192666 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC6908763 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85067585743 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 328374 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 20 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1495 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1501 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1931-1516 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000592420200017 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1528-3542 | - |