Mental Simulation to Promote Exercise Intentions and Behaviors [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Mental simulation, which employs specific patterns of imagery, can increase the intention to exercise as well as actual engagement in exercise. The present studies explored the effects of mental simulation on the intention to engage in exercise while ...
Weitan Zhong, Guoli Zhang
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Imagination Matters When You Shop Online: The Moderating Role of Mental Simulation Between Materialism and Online Impulsive Buying [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2019 Jing Li,1 Ruirui Yang,1,2 Junjie Cui,1 Yongyu Guo3 1School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Key Laboratory of Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, and Hubei Human Development and Mental Health Key Laboratory, Wuhan 430079 ...
Li J, Yang R, Cui J, Guo Y
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Pleasure or Health? The Role of Mental Simulation in Desire and Food Choices [PDF]
Foods, 2020 Many times, desire possesses us and impedes us from making healthier food choices. From a grounded cognition perspective, we investigated the role of two types of mental simulation (process and outcome) in desire and food choice to understand the ...
Naomí C. Muñoz-Vilches +2 more
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Mental simulation and compulsive buying: a multiple mediation model through impulse buying and self-control [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study explores the multiple mediation effects of impulse buying and a self-control failure on the relationship between two types of mental simulation—outcome and process simulation—and compulsive buying.
Xiaowei Duan
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Imagined Steps: Mental Simulation of Coordinated Rhythmic Movements Effects on Pro-sociality [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Rhythmically coordinating with a partner can increase pro-sociality, but pro-sociality does not appear to change in proportion to coordination success, or particular classes of coordination.
Liam Cross +5 more
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Prefrontal meta-control incorporating mental simulation enhances the adaptivity of reinforcement learning agents in dynamic environments [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational NeuroscienceIntroductionRecent advances in computational neuroscience highlight the significance of prefrontal cortical meta-control mechanisms in facilitating flexible and adaptive human behavior.
JiHun Kim +3 more
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Grid-cell representations in mental simulation. [PDF]
Elife, 2016 Anticipating the future is a key motif of the brain, possibly supported by mental simulation of upcoming events. Rodent single-cell recordings suggest the ability of spatially tuned cells to represent subsequent locations. Grid-like representations have been observed in the human entorhinal cortex during virtual and imagined navigation.
Bellmund JL +3 more
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Decoding and encoding models reveal the role of mental simulation in the brain representation of meaning [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 How the brain representation of conceptual knowledge varies as a function of processing goals, strategies and task-factors remains a key unresolved question in cognitive neuroscience.
David Soto +3 more
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Effectiveness of mental simulation practices after total knee arthroplasty in patients with knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Lee TH +5 more
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To move without moving: a perspective article on motor imagery [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMotor imagery – the mental simulation of movement without execution – activates motor networks with near-physical fidelity. Once considered ancillary, it is now central to neuroplasticity, enhancing skill acquisition, accelerating rehabilitation, and ...
Pedro Duarte-Mendes +9 more
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