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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. Since the Five-Stages Model of the creative process proposed by Wallas (1926), creativity has become associated with ...
Massimiliano Palmiero +8 more
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Mental Imagery and Food Consumption [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2015 One enigmatic capacity of human experience is the ability to travel back and forth in time by using mental simulations. By imagining shapes, forms, and scenes, humans can relive the past and visualize future events (1, 2). Historically, this memory-based mechanism has been discussed in scientific and non-scientific fields. As described by Marcel Proust
Missbach, Benjamin +2 more
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Non-commitment in mental imagery
Cognition, 2022 We examine non-commitment in the imagination. Across 5 studies (N > 1, 800), we find that most people are non-committal about basic aspects of their mental images, including features that would be readily apparent in real images. While previous work on the imagination has discussed the possibility of non-commitment, this paper is the first, to ...
Eric Julien Bigelow +2 more
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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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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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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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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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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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The Monist, 2017 Abstract: One of the most promising trends both in the neuroscience of pain and in psychiatric treatments of chronic pain is the focus on mental imagery. My aim is to argue that if we take these findings seriously, we can draw very important and radical philosophical conclusions.
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