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Remembering the past and imagining the future: A role for nonvisual imagery in the everyday cognition of the blind and the sighted [PDF]
, 2006 Images can be generated in all sensory modalities. Nevertheless, research on the everyday use of mental imagery, for example in autobiographical memory tasks, has suggested that it is only visual images that facilitate memory retrieval (e.g., Williams ...
Pring, Linda +3 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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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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Synesthesia as (Multimodal) Mental Imagery [PDF]
Multisensory Research, 2020 Abstract It has been repeatedly suggested that synesthesia is intricately connected with unusual ways of exercising one’s mental imagery, although it is not always entirely clear what the exact connection is. My aim is to show that all forms of synesthesia are forms of (often very different kinds of) mental imagery and, further, if we
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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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Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse
Neuroscience ResearchCognitive 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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The speed of our mental soundtracks: Tracking the tempo of involuntary musical imagery in everyday life [PDF]
, 2015 The study of spontaneous and everyday cognitions is an area of rapidly growing interest. One of the most ubiquitous forms of spontaneous cognition is involuntary musical imagery (INMI), the involuntarily retrieved and repetitive mental replay of music ...
Halpern, Andrea R. +23 more
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VisionBoth voluntary mental imagery and dream imagery involve multisensory representations without externally present stimuli that can be categorized as offline perceptions. Due to common mechanisms, correlations between multisensory dream imagery profiles and
Maren Bilzer, Merlin Monzel
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Shaping the Space: A Role for the Hippocampus in Mental Imagery Formation
VisionMental imagery is claimed to underlie a host of abilities, such as episodic memory, working memory, and decision-making. A popular view holds that mental imagery relies on the perceptual system and that it can be said to be ‘vision in reverse’.
Andrea Blomkvist
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Sign theory at work: The mental imagery debate revisited
Sign 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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