Positive mental imagery, emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in individuals with alcohol use disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionsEmotion regulation, depressive symptoms and mental imagery have both been linked to alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, the association between these factors have not been investigated within a group of individuals with AUD.ObjectivesThe ...
M. Rydzewska +9 more
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Effects of Personalized Mental Imagery Training on Anger Expression and Resilience in Adolescent Rugby Players: A Controlled Study [PDF]
ChildrenBackground: Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by heightened emotional reactivity and increased exposure to stress, particularly in high-contact sports such as rugby.
Donatella Di Corrado +5 more
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Cognitive and neural mechanisms of mental imagery supporting creative cognition [PDF]
Communications BiologyWhile the role of mental imagery in creative cognition is acknowledged, the specific cognitive and neural mechanisms remain underexplored. This study aims to elucidate the supportive role of mental imagery in creative cognition from a semantic memory ...
Jing Gu +7 more
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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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An exploration into aphantasia: the inability to form voluntary mental imagery [PDF]
, 2021 Congenital aphantasia is a variation of the human experience, characterised by a life-long inability to generate voluntary mental imagery, and so far, has been examined in the visual domain. In a series of 10 experiments, this thesis took an experimental
Pounder, Z.
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