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The speed of our mental soundtracks: Tracking the tempo of involuntary musical imagery in everyday life [PDF]
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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The heterogenous and dynamic nature of mental images: An empirical study [PDF]
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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A Comparison of the Effect of Cognitive Specific and General Imagery on Skills Performance of 7-10-Year-Old Soccer Players [PDF]
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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Synesthesia as (Multimodal) Mental Imagery [PDF]
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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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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Worry, problem elaboration and suppression of imagery: the role of concreteness [PDF]
Both lay concept and scientific theory claim that worry may be helpful for defining and analyzing problems. Recent studies, however, indicate that worrisome problem elaborations are less concrete than worry-free problem elaborations.
Stoeber, Joachim, Joachim Stöber
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Best practice for motor imagery: A systematic literature review on motor imagery training elements in five different disciplines [PDF]
Copyright @ 2011 Schuster et al - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any ...
Schuster, C +31 more
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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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Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse
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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