Perky's experiment, in which participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects onto a screen, showed that

a. imagery and perception are two different phenomena.
b. imagery and perception can interact with one another.
c. there are large individual differences in people's ability to create visual images.
d. creating a visual image can interfere with a perceptual judgment task.


b

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