The present study investigated whether color imagery could override the representations of the prevalent selection history effect termed Priming of Pop-out (PoP), which is constituted by faster responding when the target color is repeated rather than switched across trials of color singleton search. Participants imagined a color in the interval between trials of a color singleton search task that could be the same as or different to the previous target color, and they were to rate the vividness of these representations following each imagery event. It was revealed that when highly vivid imagery was reported, the PoP effect was attenuated relative to less vivid forms of it (and absent in two out of three experiments), and that color imagery eliminated the build-up of priming following consecutive target color repeats. Overall, the present findings suggest the representations of the selection history system can be overridden by top-down imagery.

本研究调查了彩色图像是否可以覆盖被称为弹出启动 (PoP) 的流行选择历史效应的表示，它由当目标颜色重复时更快的响应而不是在颜色单例搜索试验中切换时构成。参与者在颜色单一搜索任务的试验间隔中想象一种颜色，该颜色可能与之前的目标颜色相同或不同，并且他们将在每个图像事件之后对这些表示的生动性进行评分。结果表明，当报告高度生动的图像时，PoP 效果相对于它的不太生动的形式减弱（并且在三个实验中的两个中不存在），并且该彩色图像消除了连续目标颜色重复后启动的积累. 总体，