Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Calfornia School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, California, USA.
J Pers Assess. 2021 Sep-Oct;103(5):634-644. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2020.1842429. Epub 2020 Nov 9.
Recently, an eye-tracking study found that Complexity and other R-PAS variables located in the Engagement and Cognitive Processing domain correlated with a proxy marker for cognitive effort and engagement. The goal of the current study was to test the robustness and validity of those eye-tracking findings by inspecting fMRI data. We hypothesized that the greater the level of engagement and cognitive effort put in place by a Rorschach test-taker, the greater the engagement of his/her cortical areas reflecting ongoing top-down attentional processes should be. We re-analyzed archival fMRI data from 26 healthy participants exposed to the Rorschach inkblots with the instruction to think of what they might be. The association of various Engagement and Cognitive Processing R-PAS scores to increased BOLD signals in the Dorsal Attention Network of the brain was examined. As expected, Complexity showed the strongest effect size across all R-PAS variables under investigation ( = 0.43), followed by Synthesis ( = 0.32) and Human Movement ( = 0.21). Noteworthy, the correlation between the effect sizes found in the current fMRI study and those found in the previously published eye-tracking study consists of an impressive = .80.
最近，一项眼动研究发现，复杂性和其他 R-PAS 变量位于参与度和认知处理领域，与认知努力和参与度的代理指标相关。本研究的目的是通过检查 fMRI 数据来测试这些眼动研究结果的稳健性和有效性。我们假设罗夏测验参与者投入的参与度和认知努力水平越高，反映正在进行的自上而下注意过程的皮质区域的参与度应该越高。我们重新分析了 26 名健康参与者的 fMRI 档案数据，这些参与者在观看罗夏墨迹测验时接受了“想象一下它们可能是什么”的指令。研究检查了各种参与度和认知处理 R-PAS 评分与大脑背侧注意网络中 BOLD 信号增加之间的关联。不出所料，复杂性在所有被调查的 R-PAS 变量中显示出最强的效应大小（ = 0.43），其次是综合（ = 0.32）和人体运动（ = 0.21）。值得注意的是，当前 fMRI 研究中发现的效应大小与之前发表的眼动研究中发现的效应大小之间的相关性高达 =.80。
