Imagination

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Regional cerebral blood flow changes during visually induced subjective sadness in healthy elderly persons.

This study examined regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) changes associated with visually induced sad affect in healthy elderly persons. Subjects viewed sadness-laden, happiness-laden, and emotionally neutral image sets while rCBF was recorded using ...
Sergio Paradiso, Robert G Robinson, Laura L Boles Ponto, G Leonard Watkins, Richard D Hichwa (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2003WINTER)
regional-cerebral-blood-flow-changes-visually-induced-subjective.asp

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Where did the ventricular localization of mental faculties come from?

During the Middle Ages it was widely believed that the various mental faculties-sensation, cognition, memory, and so forth-were each located in a specific part of the three ventricles that were thought to be housed in the brain. The origin of this scheme ...
Christopher D Green (J Hist Behav Sci, 2003SPRING)
where-ventricular-localization-mental-faculties-come-from.asp

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Visions of the dead: imagination and mourning.

Contemporary research recognizes the existence of an ongoing attachment between the mourner and the deceased. This research tends to focus on the subjective aspects of the attachment--the mourners memory and emotions. A complementary perspective is ...
Scott H Becker, Roger M Knudson (Death Stud, 200310)
visions-dead-imagination-mourning.asp

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When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery?

Although many neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery have revealed activation in early visual cortex (Areas 17 or 18), many others have not. The authors review this literature and compare how well 3 models explain the disparate results. Each study ...
Stephen M Kosslyn, William L Thompson (Psychol Bull, 200309)
early-visual-cortex-activated-visual-mental-imagery.asp

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Effects of imagery motor training on torque production of ankle plantar flexor muscles.

The aim of this study was to investigate in control subjects the effect of imagery training on the torque of plantar-flexor muscles of the ankle. Twenty-nine subjects were allocated to one of three groups that performed either imagery training, ...
Inge Zijdewind, Sjoukje T Toering, Bram Bessem, Occo Van Der Laan, Ron L Diercks (Muscle Nerve, 200308)
effects-imagery-motor-training-torque-production-ankle-plantar-flexor.asp

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Imaginal exposure alone and imaginal exposure with cognitive restructuring in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder.

This study investigated the extent to which providing cognitive restructuring (CR) with prolonged imaginal exposure (IE) would lead to greater symptom reduction than providing IE alone for participants with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...
Richard A Bryant, Michelle L Moulds, Rachel M Guthrie, Suzanne T Dang, Reginald D V Nixon (J Consult Clin Psychol, 200308)
imaginal-exposure-alone-imaginal-exposure-cognitive-restructuring.asp

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Counterfactual cognitive deficit in persons with Parkinsons disease.

BACKGROUND: Counterfactuals are mental representations of alternatives to past events. Recent research has shown them to be important for other cognitive processes, such as planning, causal reasoning, problem solving, and decision making-all processes ...
P McNamara, R Durso, A Brown, A Lynch (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200308)
counterfactual-cognitive-deficit-persons-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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Implicit transfer of motor strategies in mental rotation.

Recent research indicates that motor areas are activated in some types of mental rotation. Many of these studies have required participants to perform egocentric transformations of body parts or whole bodies; however, motor activation also has been found ...
Maryjane Wraga, William L Thompson, Nathaniel M Alpert, Stephen M Kosslyn (Brain Cogn, 200307)
implicit-transfer-motor-strategies-mental-rotation.asp

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When mental images are very detailed: image generation and memory performance as a function of age.

Older adults appear to have problems in mental imagery which seem to influence memory, such as in the recall of concrete words. However, the effects of imagery instruction on old participants memory are quite inconsistent (Richardson, 1980; Salthouse, ...
Paola Palladino, Rossana De Beni (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200307)
mental-images-detailed-image-generation-memory-performance-function.asp

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Diversity and becoming: implications of human existence as coexistence.

Better ways of understanding and working with human diversity are needed in the healthcare and human service disciplines. Nursing, as the discipline that cares for whole persons throughout their lives and meets people where they are, is ideally suited to ...
William K Cody (Nurs Sci Q, 200307)
diversity-becoming-implications-human-existence-coexistence.asp