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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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.
Yoko Nagai +5 more
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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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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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Cognitive and neural mechanisms of mental imagery supporting creative cognition [PDF]
Communications BiologyWhile the role of mental imagery in creative cognition is acknowledged, the specific cognitive and neural mechanisms remain underexplored. This study aims to elucidate the supportive role of mental imagery in creative cognition from a semantic memory ...
Jing Gu +7 more
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Effects of Personalized Mental Imagery Training on Anger Expression and Resilience in Adolescent Rugby Players: A Controlled Study [PDF]
ChildrenBackground: Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by heightened emotional reactivity and increased exposure to stress, particularly in high-contact sports such as rugby.
Donatella Di Corrado +5 more
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Prospective Mental Imagery in Depression: Impact on Reward Processing and Reward-Motivated Behaviour
Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2021 [Background] Mental imagery has long been part of cognitive behavioural therapies. More recently, a resurgence of interest has emerged for prospective mental imagery, i.e.
Fritz Renner +5 more
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The creative interplay between hand gestures, convergent thinking, and mental imagery
PLoS ONE, 2023 Using hand gestures benefits children’s divergent thinking and enhances verbal improvisation in adults. In the present study, we asked whether gestures were also associated with convergent thinking by activating individuals’ verbal lexicon and ...
Gyulten Hyusein, Tilbe Göksun
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The Relationship Between Motor Imagery Ability and Mental Representation Structure in Basketball Players [PDF]
رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2022 Introduction: Motor imagery is one of the cognitive aspects of the tasks which is investigated as a factor affecting performance in many situations. Also, another cognitive dimension of tasks that researchers believe to play an important role in motor ...
Mahboubeh Sheikhzadeh +2 more
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