The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Neuroscience Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Conscious Cogn. 2022 Aug;103:103377. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103377. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
Perception of our external environment is not isolated from the influence of our internal thoughts, and past evidence points to a possible common associative mechanism underlying both the perception of scenes and our internal thought. Here, we investigated the nature of the interaction between an associative mindset and scene perception, hypothesizing a functional advantage to an associative thought pattern in the perception of scenes. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that associative thinking facilitates scene perception, which evolved over the course of the experiments. In contrast to scene perception, Experiment 3 showed that associative thinking hinders the perception of mundane objects, in which associative information is minimized. Nevertheless, object perception was facilitated when associative thinking was reduced. This double dissociation suggests that an associative mind is more receptive of externally perceived associative information, and that a match between the orientation of internal and external processing may be key for perception.
我们对外界环境的感知并非与内部思想的影响完全隔绝，过去的证据表明，场景感知和内部思维可能存在一个共同的联想机制。在这里，我们研究了联想思维与场景感知之间相互作用的本质，假设在场景感知中，联想思维模式具有功能优势。实验 1 和实验 2 表明，联想思维促进了场景感知，这种促进作用在实验过程中逐渐增强。与场景感知相反，实验 3 表明，联想思维会阻碍对日常物体的感知，因为日常物体的联想信息被最小化了。然而，当减少联想思维时，物体感知会得到促进。这种双重分离表明，联想思维更容易接受外部感知到的联想信息，并且内部和外部处理方向的匹配可能是感知的关键。
