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Our purpose was to integrate, within ART, the phenomenological notion of mental image vividness and thus investigate the possible biasing effects of individual differences on visual processing. Using a Vernier acuity task, we tested whether indirect estimation of relative V1 size (small, medium, large) and self-reported vividness, in three subgroups of 53 observers, could predict significant effects of priming, interference, or more extreme Perky effects (negative and positive), which could be induced by imagery, impacting acuity performance. The results showed that small V1 was correlated with priming and\/or negative Perky effects independently of vividness; medium V1 was related to interference at low vividness but priming at high vividness; and large V1 was related to positive Perky effects at high vividness but negative Perky effects at low vividness. Our interpretation of ART and related modeling based on ARTSCAN contributes to expanding Grossberg\u2019s comprehensive understanding of how and why individually experienced vividness may drive the differential use of the dorsal and ventral complementary visual processing pathways, resulting in the observed effects of imagery on concurrent perception.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info15010059","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,19]],"date-time":"2024-01-19T03:33:41Z","timestamp":1705635221000},"page":"59","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["An ART Tour de Force on Mental Imagery: Vividness, Individual Bias Differences, and Complementary Visual Processing Streams"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8295-9850","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amedeo","family":"D\u2019Angiulli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada"}]},{"given":"Christy","family":"Laarakker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4478-2844","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Derrick Matthew","family":"Buchanan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"McKelvie, S. 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