Sean N Riley

Vividness as the similarity between generated imagery and an internal model.

Brain and Cognition July 1, 2023 Sean N Riley, Jim Davies

Vividness in visual mental imagery has been relatively under-explored compared to imagery's representational format and neural mechanisms. In this paper, we take a deeper look at vividness and suggest that in re-framing it, we can potentially reconcile disparate findings regarding visual cortex activation during imagery. Unlike traditional views of vividness that define the concept in terms of...