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Visual mental imagery during caloric vestibular stimulation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Mental imagery can generate and regulate acquired differential fear conditioned reactivity

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Mental imagery is an important tool in the cognitive control of emotion. The present study tests the prediction that visual imagery can generate and regulate differential fear conditioning via the activation and prioritization of stimulus representations
Steven G. Greening   +7 more
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Editorial. Creativity and mental imagery [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Guariglia, Cecilia   +5 more
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Mental Imagery: Motivasi Belajar Siswa dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Jasmani

open access: yesPhysical Activity Journal, 2021
This research is motivated by the lack of student motivation in displaying the performance of Physical Education learning. The purpose of this study was to increase students' learning motivation in physical education learning through mental ...
Boby Agustan   +2 more
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Sign theory at work: The mental imagery debate revisited

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2015
This article attempts to give a plausible explanation to the long-debated question about the nature of mental imagery (MI). The traditional approach to this question is based on the representational paradigm, which, I claim, is misguided.
Jelena Issajeva
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Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse

open access: yesNeuroscience Research
Cognitive neuroscience research on mental imagery has largely focused on the visual imagery modality in unimodal task contexts. Recent studies have uncovered striking individual differences in visual imagery capacity, with some individuals reporting a ...
Alexei Joel Dawes   +2 more
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Reading Pictures for Story Comprehension Requires Mental Imagery Skills

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
We examined the role of mental imagery skills on story comprehension in 150 fifth graders (10-12-year-olds), when reading a narrative book chapter with alternating words and pictures (i.e., text blocks were alternated by one- or two-page picture spreads).
Inouk E. Boerma   +3 more
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Intersection of reality and fiction in art perception: pictorial space, body sway and mental imagery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background The thesis of embodied cognition claims that perception of the environment entails a complex set of multisensory processes which forms a basis for the agent’s potential and immediate actions.
Ganczarek, J.   +3 more
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Mental Images and School Learning: A Longitudinal Study on Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Recent literature have underlined the connections between children’s reading skills and capacity to create and use mental representations or mental images; furthermore data highlighted the involvement of visuospatial abilities both during math learning ...
Maria Guarnera   +4 more
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Bottom-up retinotopic organization supports top-down mental imagery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Finding a path between locations is a routine task in daily life. Mental navigation is often used to plan a route to a destination that is not visible from the current location. We first used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and surface-based
Huang, R.-S., Sereno, Martin I.
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