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A rat in the sewer: How mental imagery interacts with object recognition. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The role of mental imagery has been puzzling researchers for more than two millennia. Both positive and negative effects of mental imagery on information processing have been discussed.
Harun Karimpur, Kai Hamburger
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Mental Imagery Skills in Competitive Young Athletes and Non-athletes
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Mental imagery is a fully immersive multi-sensory procedure that associates as numerous senses to create a mental image and process it without the presence of external stimuli.
Donatella Di Corrado +6 more
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Multimodal Mental Imagery [PDF]
Cortex, 2018 Abstract Mental imagery in one sense modality (say, audition) is often triggered by sensory input in another sense modality (say, vision). This is what happens, for example, when we watch the TV muted. This is called multimodal mental imagery and its prevalence in everyday perception provides an additional reason why what we pre ...
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The heterogenous and dynamic nature of mental images: An empirical study [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2018 This article addresses the problem of the nature of mental imagery from a new perspective. It suggests that sign-theoretical approach as elaborated by C. S. Peirce can give a better and more comprehensive explanation of mental imagery.
Issajeva Jelena, Pietarinen Ahti-Veikko
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Do synaesthesia and mental imagery tap into similar cross-modal processes? [PDF]
, 2019 Synaesthesia has previously been linked with imagery abilities, although an understanding of a causal role for mental imagery in broader synaesthetic experiences remains elusive.
Cooney, Sarah M. +4 more
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A Comparison of the Effect of Cognitive Specific and General Imagery on Skills Performance of 7-10-Year-Old Soccer Players [PDF]
رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2015 The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of different types of imagery on the skills performance of 7-10-year-old soccer players. 45 children (mean age 8.44±1.13 year) with similar imagery abilitywere selected and randomly assigned to three
Mehrzad Kharestani +2 more
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Visuospatial tasks suppress craving for cigarettes. [PDF]
, 2010 The Elaborated Intrusion (EI) theory of desire posits that visual imagery plays a key role in craving. We report a series of experiments testing this hypothesis in a drug addiction context.
Andrade, J +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2015 Mental imagery, seeing with the mind’s eyes, can induce stronger positive as well as negative affect compared to verbal processing. Given this emotion-amplifying effect, it appears likely that mental images play an important role in affective disorders ...
Stefanie Maria Görgen +3 more
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Visual mental imagery during caloric vestibular stimulation. [PDF]
, 2006 We investigated high-resolution mental imagery and mental rotation, while the participants received caloric vestibular stimulation. High-resolution visual mental imagery tasks have been shown to activate early visual cortex, which is deactivated by ...
Kosslyn, S, Mast, F, Merfeld, D
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Aphantasia, SDAM, and Episodic Memory [PDF]
, 2019 Episodic memory (EM) involves re-experiencing past experiences by means of mental imagery. Aphantasics (who lack mental imagery) and people with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) lack the ability to re-experience, which would imply that ...
Brons, Lajos
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