Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy.
California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2017 Apr 30;262:25-31. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Feb 10.
Recently, a lot of effort has been made to ground Rorschach interpretations to their evidence base. To date, however, no studies have yet described, via fMRI, what brain areas get involved when one takes the Rorschach. To fill this gap in the literature, we administered the ten-inkblot stimuli to 26 healthy volunteers during fMRI. Analysis of BOLD signals revealed that, compared to fixating a cross, looking at the Rorschach inkblots while thinking of what they might be associated with higher temporo-occipital and fronto-parietal activations, and with greater activity in some small, sub-cortical regions included in the limbic system. These findings are in line with the traditional conceptualization of the test, as they suggest that taking the Rorschach involves (a) high-level visual processing, (b) top-down as well as bottom-up attentional processes, and (c) perception and processing of emotions and emotional memories.
最近，人们做了大量努力将罗夏测验解释与证据基础联系起来。然而，迄今为止，还没有研究通过 fMRI 描述当一个人进行罗夏测验时大脑的哪些区域会参与其中。为了填补文献中的这一空白，我们在 fMRI 期间向 26 名健康志愿者施测了十墨迹刺激。对 BOLD 信号的分析表明，与注视十字相比，当志愿者思考墨迹可能与什么相关时，观察罗夏墨迹会引起更高的颞顶和额顶叶激活，并且在一些包括在边缘系统中的小皮质下区域有更大的活动。这些发现与该测试的传统概念化一致，因为它们表明进行罗夏测验涉及（a）高级视觉处理，（b）自上而下和自下而上的注意力过程，以及（c）情绪和情绪记忆的感知和处理。
