| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study investigated the ability of mental imagery and visualization of mental image. The result showed that social anxiety was positively correlated with the object imagery scale, which concerns the ability to construct pictorial images of individual objects. Anxious individual would use not verbal but visual processing for mental image. Visualized mental representations of self-image were evaluated, and results indicated that self-image in highly anxious individuals decreased social desirability. Other experiments investigated attentional guidance from mental imagery. Participants were instructed to visualize a color or an object clearly associated with a specific color, after which they were asked to detect a colored target in a visual-search task. The results indicated that visual mental imagery guided attention toward imagery-matching stimuli. This attentional guidance was also observed when participants visualized emotional representations of a face.
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