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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Can a word paint a thousand pictures? Brand- evoked mental imagery in advertising
Cuadernos.info, 2021 In this research we have used the logo as stimuli to test the brand-evoked mental imagery effect. According to the Dual Coding Theory, familiar brands facilitate additional pathways –visual and verbal– to retrieve arguments to build mental imagery ...
Diana Gavilan, María Avello
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, 2023 Abstract This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling features of perception (like the way it is influenced in a top-down manner and the way different sense modalities ...
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The Influence of Mental Imagery Instructions and Personality Characteristics on Reading Experiences
Collabra: Psychology, 2020 It is well established that readers form mental images when reading a narrative. However, the consequences of mental imagery (i.e. the influence of mental imagery on the way people experience stories) are still unclear.
Marloes Mak +2 more
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A causal link between mental imagery and affect-laden perception of climate change related risks
Scientific Reports, 2023 Previous studies have shed light on the importance of affect in risk perception and the role of mental imagery in generating affect. In the current study, we explore the causal relationship between mental imagery, affect, and risk perception by ...
Hulda Karlsson +2 more
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Unconscious mental imagery [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Historically, mental imagery has been defined as an experiential state—as something necessarily conscious. But most behavioural or neuroimaging experiments on mental imagery—including the most famous ones—do not actually take the conscious experience of the subject into consideration.
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Brand-Evoked Mental Imagery: The Role of Brands in Eliciting Mental Imagery
SAGE Open, 2020 This research provides evidence of the role played by a brand in the stimulation of mental imagery. We anticipate that a familiar (vs. unfamiliar) brand will evoke higher levels of visual mental imagery in the consumer.
Diana Gavilan, Maria Avello
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Why Successful Performance in Imagery Tasks Does not Require the Manipulation of Mental Imagery [PDF]
, 2019 Nanay (2017) argues for unconscious mental imagery, inter alia based on the assumption that successful performance in imagery tasks requires the manipulation of mental imagery. I challenge this assumption with the help of results presented in Shepard and
Park, Thomas
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Influence of motor imagery training on gait rehabilitation in sub-acute stroke: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2015 Objective: To evaluate the effect of mental practice on motor imagery ability and assess the influence of motor imagery on gait rehabilitation in sub-acute stroke. Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Oomen, Anne +3 more
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