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Imagining Predictions: Mental Imagery as Mental Emulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We argue that the primary function of mental imagery is to allow us to generate specific predictions based upon past experience. All imagery allows us to answer 'what if ' questions by making explicit and accessible the likely consequences of being in a ...
Kosslyn, Stephen, Moulton, Samuel
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Normal‐Appearing White Matter Injury Mediates Chronic Deep Venous Hypoxia and Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore how cerebral hypoxia and Normal‐Appearing White Matter (NAWM) integrity affect MS lesion burden and clinical course. Methods Seventy‐nine MS patients, including 13 clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients and 66 relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients, and 44 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited from ...
Xinli Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imaginative Representations of Two- and Three-Dimensional Matrices in Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Children with non-verbal learning disabilities (NLD) are characterized by high verbal and poor non-verbal intelligence, poor cognitive abilities, school difficulties, and—sometimes—depressive symptoms.
Baddeley A. D.   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Clinical Validation of Plasma p‐217tau in Neurological Diseases

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Plasma p‐217tau is a minimally invasive but specific biomarker for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, its disease specificity remains to be clinically evaluated. We validated the reliability of the p‐217tau biomarker in 12 other neurological diseases.
Takeshi Kawarabayashi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of mental imagery and physical exercise on static balance in subjects with multiple sclerosis

open access: yesمجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2015
Introduction: Mental imagery is a psychological factor effecting the improvement of motor skills. The present study was aimed to examine the effect of mental imagery and physical exercise on static balance in subjects with Multiple sclerosis (MS ...
Mehrzad Kharestani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

CSF Monoamine Metabolites and Cognitive Trajectory in Early Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Imaging and postmortem studies indicate that abnormalities in monoaminergic neurotransmission contribute to cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, it remains uncertain if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites can serve as biomarkers of cognitive decline in early PD.
Jing‐Yu Shao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

An inwardly focused cognitive style links mental imagery and mental health

open access: yesHeliyon
Variations in mental imagery ability have been linked to emotional, cognitive, and personality traits, but a unifying framework connecting these associations to mental health has been lacking.
Timo L. Kvamme   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning from experience: manifestations of young children's learning from pedagogic representations [PDF]

open access: yes
This study investigates how influences of teachers’ presentations of mathematical ideas, on children’s mental constructions for number and number operations, are manifested by the language they use to describe their mental calculation procedures, and by ...
Bills, Christopher John
core  

Testing a Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABCs) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine veterans aged 65 to 89 with CLBP from three Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC ...
Debra K. Weiner   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Object Recognition in Mental Representations: Directions for Exploring Diagnostic Features through Visual Mental Imagery

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
One of the fundamental goals of object recognition research is to understand how a cognitive representation produced from the output of filtered and transformed sensory information facilitates efficient viewer behavior. Given that mental imagery strongly
Stephanie M. Roldan
doaj   +1 more source

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