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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 80-96, March 2026.Abstract Objectives Research consistently reports an association between auditory hallucinations and traumatic experiences, yet the psychological mechanisms underpinning this relationship remain poorly understood. Empirical evidence suggests that enduring dispositions, including early maladaptive schemas, interact with immediate stressors to elicit ...
June Engeland +2 more
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Visual working memory performance in aphantasia [PDF]
Cortex, 2018 Aphantasia, i.e., the congenital inability to experience voluntary mental imagery, offers a new model for studying the functional role of mental imagery in (visual) cognition. However, until now, there have been no studies investigating whether aphantasia can be linked to specific impairments in cognitive functioning.
Jacobs, Christianne +2 more
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Physiological Processing of Everyday Aversive Mental Imagery
Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Everyday aversive experiences, such as a crying infant or the sound of construction, are not life‐threatening, yet they can strongly shape affective experience and physiological state. While most affective imagery research has focused on fear and anxiety, the mechanisms underlying imagery of mild, everyday aversive events remain underexplored.
Xuan Yang +7 more
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Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia [PDF]
Cortex, 2015 This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Cortex. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A
Zeman, AZ, Dewar, M, Della Sala, S
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Aphantasia, imagination and dreaming [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2020 AbstractAphantasia is a recently discovered disorder characterised by the total incapacity to generate visual forms of mental imagery. This paper proposes that aphantasia raises important theoretical concerns for the ongoing debate in the philosophy and science of consciousness over the nature of dreams.
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UK Biobank: Transforming drug discovery and precision medicine
British Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 183, Issue 2, Page 234-248, January 2026.UK Biobank is a large‐scale, prospective study with extensive genetic and phenotypic data on half a million individuals. Volunteers, aged between 40 and 69 years, were recruited between 2006 and 2010 from the general population of the United Kingdom.
Jelena Bešević +11 more
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 9, September 2025.We investigated the influence of characteristics of visual cues provided during an odor imagery task on brain activity in fMRI. Several olfactory and non‐olfactory brain regions were activated, but not the piriform cortex. Neurophysiological and psychometrical comparisons between visual cues suggest slightly reduced cognitive load in presence of ...
Luca Fantin +4 more
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Experiences of imagery in obsessive‐compulsive disorder: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 491-512, June 2025.Abstract Introduction Mental imagery is a defining criterion within current OCD diagnoses, and yet little has been written about how this is experienced. This study aimed to investigate how people with a diagnosis of OCD experience imagery, to better understand how this might contribute to the condition.
Hannah E. F. Wedge +2 more
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Mental imagery through the lens of aphantasia
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 317-324, June 2025.In his recent book Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, Nanay presents a far‐reaching empirically grounded account of mental imagery. This commentary focuses on Nanay's proposal that individuals with aphantasia, a cognitive norm variant characterized by an absence of imagery experience, have unconscious mental imagery. Recent empirical
Christian O. Scholz
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Aphantasia modulates immersion experience but not eye fixation patterns during story reading
Acta PsychologicaStory reading is often accompanied with mental visualization of the described scenes and events. Recent findings indicate that individuals who report not experiencing any visual imagery (a condition called aphantasia), also report being less absorbed and
Hina Kawaguchi +3 more
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