Editorial. Creativity and mental imagery [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Considering the pivotal role that creative ideas play in human societies, and creativity's contribution to multiple aspects of human life, understanding the cognitive components underlying creativity has become increasingly fundamental.
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Mental imagery in the context of online compulsive buying-shopping disorder: The role of pleasure and relief [PDF]
Addictive Behaviors ReportsBackground: The rise of e-commerce has led to an increase in online compulsive buying-shopping disorder (OCBSD), an addictive disorder potentially driven by preoccupations like mental imagery, yet their occurrence and predictors have not been thoroughly ...
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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.
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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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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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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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