'Mind's Eye' Influences Visual Perception

This is a recent news gathered in ScienceDaily.com and showed just how important the relationship of imagination with our visual perception of things.  To wit -

Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts our visual perception.

"We found that imagery leads to a short-term memory trace that can bias future perception," says Joel Pearson, research associathttp://www.nowpublic.com/node/1265617/edite in the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology. and lead author of the study. "This is the first research to definitively show that imagining something changes vision both while you are imagining it and later on."

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