幻觉和视觉工作记忆:没有直接证据表明幻觉患者的视觉工作记忆受损,无论是行为表现还是多像素模式分类器的准确性
Kathryn F Knight1, Fraser Milton1, Adam Zeman1
1University of Exeter.
Neuropsychologia
|March 9, 2026
概括
患有阿芬塔西亚的个人,无法形成视觉心理图像,在视觉工作记忆中不会表现出损害. 我们的研究表明,幻觉可能是意识意识的差异,而不是表现能力.
科学领域:
- 认知神经科学 认知神经科学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 视觉心理图像和视觉工作记忆理论上依赖于共享的视觉表示机制.
- 缺少视觉心理图像的阿芬塔西亚患者,被假设在视觉工作记忆方面存在缺陷.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究阿芬塔西亚和视觉工作记忆表现之间的关系.
- 为了确定阿芬塔西亚是否会影响工作记忆中维护视觉表征的能力.
主要方法:
- 进行了三项研究:两项旨在最大限度地减少补偿策略的行为实验和一项使用多倍素模式分析的功能磁共振成像 (fMRI) 研究.
- 参与者包括有和没有幻想症的个体.
主要成果:
- 在阿芬塔西亚患者和典型的成像者之间没有观察到行为视觉工作记忆表现的显著差异.
- 对fMRI数据的多维素模式分析也显示,两组之间与视觉工作记忆相关的神经活动模式没有显著差异.
结论:
- 这些发现表明,阿芬塔西亚可能代表了对视觉图像的有意识体验的变化,而不是在生成或维护视觉表现方面存在根本的缺陷.
- 这挑战了意识视觉图像与视觉工作记忆的潜在机制之间存在直接联系的假设.
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