Visuospatial tasks suppress craving for cigarettes. [PDF]
The Elaborated Intrusion (EI) theory of desire posits that visual imagery plays a key role in craving. We report a series of experiments testing this hypothesis in a drug addiction context.
Andrade, J +3 more
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Playing 'Tetris' reduces the strength, frequency and vividness of naturally occurring cravings. [PDF]
Elaborated Intrusion Theory (EI) postulates that imagery is central to craving, therefore a visually based task should decrease craving and craving imagery.
Andrade, J, May, J, Skorka-Brown, J
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This paper defends a version of aesthetic cognitivism: the truth of statements expressed, implied, or alluded to by a work of fiction matters aesthetically, and bears upon the work’s aesthetic value.
Tilmann Köppe, Julia Langkau
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Mental time travel in dysphoria: Differences in the content and subjective experience of past and future episodes [PDF]
Previous research has shown that depressed individuals demonstrate a number of biases in their ability to retrieve past events and simulate future events.
Anderson, Rachel J., Evans, Gemma L.
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The Action Cycle Theory of Perception and Mental Imagery
The Action Cycle Theory (ACT) is an enactive theory of the perception and a mental imagery system that is comprised of six modules: Schemata, Objects, Actions, Affect, Goals and Others’ Behavior.
David F. Marks
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IntroductionSome events are remembered as more central to a person’s identity than others. However, it is not entirely clear what characterizes these autobiographical memories central to one’s identity.
Justina Pociunaite, Daniel Zimprich
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Measuring athlete imagery ability: the Sport Imagery Ability Questionnaire [PDF]
Based on literature identifying movement imagery, observation, and execution to elicit similar areas of neural activity, research has demonstrated movement imagery and observation to successfully prime movement execution.
Cumming, Jennifer, Williams, S. E.
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Phenomenological Studies of Visual Mental Imagery: A Review and Synthesis of Historical Datasets
This article reviews historically significant phenomenological studies of visual mental imagery (VMI), starting with Fechner in 1860 and continuing to the present.
David F. Marks
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Believing Does Not Equal Remembering: The Effects of Social Feedback and Objective False Evidence on Belief in Occurrence, Belief in Accuracy, and Recollection [PDF]
We examined the impact of social feedback and objective false evidence on belief in occurrence, belief in accuracy, and recollection of an autobiographical experience.
Fränken, J-P. +3 more
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I Am Conscious, Therefore, I Am: Imagery, Affect, Action, and a General Theory of Behavior
Organisms are adapted to each other and the environment because there is an inbuilt striving toward security, stability, and equilibrium. A General Theory of Behavior connects imagery, affect, and action with the central executive system we call ...
David F. Marks
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