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Mental Imagery and Blindness

open access: yes, 2012
Although imagery is traditionally thought to be inherently linked to visual perception, growing evidence shows that mental images can arise also from nonvisual modalities. Paradigmatic in this respect is the case of individuals born blind or that became blind soon after birth.
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Mental imagery

2020
When we speak of mental images we refer to representation of objects in our mind. Typically, mental images refer to visual representations, but we could also imagine the sound of a river, the scent of a daisy, the softness of wool, the taste of a piece of chocolate cake and thus produce also auditory, olfactory, tactile and gustative mental images ...
GARDINI S   +2 more
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Unconscious mental imagery

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021
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 - don’t actually take the conscious ...
Bence Nanay
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Imagery in Mental Contamination

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2014
Background: Intrusive imagery is experienced in a number of anxiety disorders, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Imagery is particularly relevant to mental contamination, where unwanted intrusive images are hypothesized to evoke feelings of dirtiness and urges to wash (Rachman, 2006).
Anna E, Coughtrey   +2 more
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Hypnotizability and Mental Imagery

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1995
Two studies investigated the relationship between mental imagery and hypnotizability, with the imagery measures administered in a hypnotic context. The correlation of hypnotizability with vividness of imagery was significant in one study, but not in the other; both correlations were significantly lower than that obtained between hypnotizability and ...
M L, Glisky   +2 more
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A model of mental imagery

International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1985
A spatial image is a representation of a scene which encodes the spatial location, distance away, surface orientation and movement of each visible surface in the scene. Mental images are spatial images which are held and transformed by a neural network called spatial memory.
Bryant A. Julstrom, Robert J. Baron
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Representation of Mental Imagery Functions

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995
A questionnaire was administered to 250 undergraduates to study their conceptions about the efficacy of mental images in thinking. Analysis showed that subjects rated differently the usefulness of visual imagery according to the kind of content rather than the mental process involved.
A, Antonietti   +3 more
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Mental imagery, reasoning, and blindness

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2006
Although reasoning seems to be inextricably linked to seeing in the “mind's eye”, the evidence is equivocal. In three experiments, sighted, blindfolded sighted, and congenitally totally blind persons solved deductive inferences based on three sorts of relation: (a) visuo-spatial relations that are easy to envisage either visually or spatially, (b ...
Knauff, Markus, May, Elisabeth
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Mental Imagery and School Readiness

Psychological Reports, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between the skills that constitute school readiness, such as linguistic, phonological, logical-mathematical and psychomotor skills, and mental imagery processes in preschool children. The participants were 100 healthy children (50 boys and 50 girls) aged four to five.
Guarnera, M   +3 more
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