September 11, 2025

Cross-category attentional biases driven by visual mental imagery of social cues.

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Research reveals that mental imagery of social cues influences selective attention and shows cross-category effects.

Imagining specific social cues can significantly bias attention toward matching stimuli, and eye gaze cues highlight this effect.
The study demonstrated that without mental imagery tasks, attentional biases disappeared, underscoring their role in capturing attention.
Utilizing a visual imagery task alongside an attentional bias paradigm, researchers established a link between imagery and attentional processes.
These findings indicate a unique processing system for social cues that operates independently from conscious awareness, revealing the depth of our mental engagements.

Zhang et al. (2025) studied this question.

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