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The forces of the imagination: exploring dimensions of mental imagery using the ReaderBank Imagination QuizThe forces of the imagination: exploring dimensions of mental imagery using the ReaderBank Imagination Quiz [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Reading stories can evoke vivid experiences of people, places, and scenes, but despite growing interest in the diversity of mental imagery, few studies have systematically explored individual differences in the reading imagination.
Georgia Punton, Marco Bernini, John Foxwell, Nick Barley, Ben Alderson-Day   +4 more
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Activation of the inner critic increases speech illusions and negative emotional valence of perceived speech

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, Andrew Allen, Rachel Brand   +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, Sewon Oh, Jacob Stanley, Sarah Hammons, Ashley Anderson, Esha Gandhi, Douglas H. Wedell, Svetlana V. Shinkareva   +7 more
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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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Investigation into Aphantasia: Neurological, Functional, and Behavioral Correlates

, 2021
In this paper I will conduct a thorough examination and organization of available research on aphantasia. I will examine two theories of the known types of aphantasia, as well as the neurological correlates associated with a range of mental imagery ...
Olivia Tween
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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, Saredo Said, Reka Nagy, Yalda Jamshidi, Christopher D. Whelan, Lauren Carson, Martin K. Rutter, Adam J. Lewandowski, Mark Effingham, Rory Collins, Ben Lacey, Naomi E. Allen   +11 more
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Semantical Visual Information Facilitates Odor Imagery: A Combined Neurophysiological and Psychometrical Approach

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, Hadrien Ceyte, Cécile Rumeau, Guillaume Drouot, Gabriela Hossu   +4 more
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PhD position - "A-Phantasia - Quantifying the Absence of Visual  Mental Imagery: A Behavioral and Neurophysiological Investigation of Aphantasia"

Project description Aphantasia is a recently coined term that describes the absence of voluntary mental imagery. In the visual modality, it refers to the inability to visualize “in the mind’s eye”. Aphantasia, with a prevalence of up to 6% in the general
Alan
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Aphantasia modulates immersion experience but not eye fixation patterns during story reading

Acta Psychologica
Story 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, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel, Hakwan Lau, Ali Moharramipour   +3 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, Louise Waddington, Andrew R. Thompson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source