Interoception predicts mental imagery vividness: exploring a key relationship [PDF]
Scientific ReportsInteroception, the sense of the internal state of the body, plays a fundamental role in emotional awareness and self-referential processing. Recently, interoception has been linked to the experience of mental imagery.
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First-Hand Accounts of Suicidal Mental Imagery: A Taxonomy of Imagery Types [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesSuicidal mental imagery are self-generated images of injury and death experienced across a range of mental health conditions, but also experienced in people who have no diagnosable mental health condition.
Marie Carey, Brian Keogh, Louise Doyle
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Exploring the association between mental imagery, sensory sensitivity, and autistic traits in autistic and non-autistic adults [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMental imagery vividness varies between individuals. Low levels of mental imagery have been associated with high levels of autistic traits, whilst autistic traits are known to positively correlate with sensory sensitivities. This would predict a negative
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Shaping the Space: A Role for the Hippocampus in Mental Imagery Formation [PDF]
VisionMental imagery is claimed to underlie a host of abilities, such as episodic memory, working memory, and decision-making. A popular view holds that mental imagery relies on the perceptual system and that it can be said to be ‘vision in reverse’.
Andrea Blomkvist
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The Phenomenology of Offline Perception: Multisensory Profiles of Voluntary Mental Imagery and Dream Imagery [PDF]
VisionBoth voluntary mental imagery and dream imagery involve multisensory representations without externally present stimuli that can be categorized as offline perceptions. Due to common mechanisms, correlations between multisensory dream imagery profiles and
Maren Bilzer, Merlin Monzel
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Mental imagery modulates bistable perception in a modality-specific manner [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMultimodal approaches are essential for understanding the mechanisms and constraints of mental imagery, yet few studies have directly compared its perceptual effects across sensory systems.
Luca Verebélyi +6 more
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Mental Imagery to Enhance Procedural Skills in Peripheral Venous Catheterization: A Randomized Simulation Study in Medical Students [PDF]
Perspectives on Medical EducationIntroduction: Procedural skill acquisition is fundamental to medical education, yet training opportunities are increasingly constrained. Mental imagery, a cognitive rehearsal method shown to enhance psychomotor performance in various domains, has gained ...
Nicolas Boulet +5 more
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Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEye movements during visual mental imagery resemble those made during prior perception. Across two experiments, we investigated whether eye movements during imagery reflect a part-by-part generation of mental images, by comparing gaze patterns during ...
Enea J. Weber, Fred W. Mast
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Positive mental imagery, emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in individuals with alcohol use disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionsEmotion regulation, depressive symptoms and mental imagery have both been linked to alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, the association between these factors have not been investigated within a group of individuals with AUD.ObjectivesThe ...
M. Rydzewska +9 more
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