Training visual imagery: Improvements of metacognition, but not imagery strength

RL Rademaker, J Pearson - Frontiers in psychology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Frontiers in psychology, 2012frontiersin.org
Visual imagery has been closely linked to brain mechanisms involved in perception. Can
visual imagery, like visual perception, improve by means of training? Previous research has
demonstrated that people can reliably evaluate the vividness of single episodes of
imagination–might the metacognition of imagery also improve over the course of training?
We had participants imagine colored Gabor patterns for an hour a day, over the course of
five consecutive days, and again 2 weeks after training. Participants rated the subjective …
Visual imagery has been closely linked to brain mechanisms involved in perception. Can visual imagery, like visual perception, improve by means of training? Previous research has demonstrated that people can reliably evaluate the vividness of single episodes of imagination – might the metacognition of imagery also improve over the course of training? We had participants imagine colored Gabor patterns for an hour a day, over the course of five consecutive days, and again 2 weeks after training. Participants rated the subjective vividness and effort of their mental imagery on each trial. The influence of imagery on subsequent binocular rivalry dominance was taken as our measure of imagery strength. We found no overall effect of training on imagery strength. Training did, however, improve participant’s metacognition of imagery. Trial-by-trial ratings of vividness gained predictive power on subsequent rivalry dominance as a function of training. These data suggest that, while imagery strength might be immune to training in the current context, people’s metacognitive understanding of mental imagery can improve with practice.
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