Imagination

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Suggestibility and negative priming: two replication studies.

Research suggests that inhibiting the effect of irrelevant stimuli on subsequent thought and action (cognitive inhibition) may be an important component of suggestibility. Two small correlation studies were conducted to address the relationship between ...
Daniel David, Richard J Brown (Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 200207)
suggestibility-negative-priming-two-replication-studies.asp

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Motor imagery training ameliorates motor clumsiness in children.

Children with impaired motor coordination (or developmental coordination disorder) have difficulty representing internally the visuospatial coordinates of intended movements. We have proposed that this deficit reflects impairment in the generation of ...
Peter H Wilson, Patrick R Thomas, Paul Maruff (J Child Neurol, 200207)
motor-imagery-training-ameliorates-motor-clumsiness-children.asp

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Hypnosis, the brain, and sports: Salient Findings July 2002.

Three particularly noteworthy articles addressing hypnosis have been published during the early portion of 2002. All, to a degree, address biological aspects of hypnotic response. One of these articles is a thoughtful summary and synthesis of ...
Michael R Nash (Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 200207)
hypnosis-brain-sports-salient-findings-july.asp

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The use of word-picture verification to study entry-level object recognition: further support for view-invariant mechanisms.

There are substantial logical and empirical reasons for rejecting the popular view that plane-misoriented objects are identified after normalization of global orientation. Our subjects determined the entry-level identity of common objects (line drawings) ...
Stefano A DeCaro, Adam Reeves (Mem Cognit, 200207)
word-picture-verification-study-entry-level-object-recognition.asp

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Tracking the minds image in the brain I: time-resolved fMRI during visuospatial mental imagery.

Mental imagery, the generation and manipulation of mental representations in the absence of sensory stimulation, is a core element of numerous cognitive processes. We investigate the cortical mechanisms underlying imagery and spatial analysis in the ...
Elia Formisano, David E J Linden, Francesco Di Salle, Luigi Trojano, Fabrizio Esposito, Alexander T Sack, Dario Grossi, Friedhelm E Zanella, Rainer Goebel (Neuron, 200207)
tracking-mind-s-image-brain-time-resolved-fmri-visuospatial-mental.asp

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Tracking the minds image in the brain II: transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals parietal asymmetry in visuospatial imagery.

The functional relevance of brain activity during visuospatial tasks was investigated by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging with unilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The cognitive tasks involved visuospatial ...
Alexander T Sack, Julia M Sperling, David Prvulovic, Elia Formisano, Rainer Goebel, Francesco Di Salle, Thomas Dierks, David E J Linden (Neuron, 200207)
tracking-mind-s-image-brain-ii-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation.asp

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Semantic monitoring of words with emotional connotation during fMRI: contribution of anterior left frontal cortex.

Previous studies showed that cortex in the anterior portions of the left frontal and temporal lobes participates in generating words with emotional connotations and processing pictures with emotional content. If these cortices process the semantic ...
Bruce Crosson, M Allison Cato, Joseph R Sadek, Didem Gökçay, Russell M Bauer, Ira S Fischler, Leeza Maron, Kaundinya Gopinath, Edward J Auerbach, Samuel R Browd, Richard W Briggs (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200207)
semantic-monitoring-words-emotional-connotation-fmri-contribution.asp

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Toward a chronopsychophysiology of mental rotation.

In a parity judgment task, the ERPs at parietal electrode sites become the more negative the more mental rotation has to be executed. In two experiments, it was investigated whether a temporal relationship exists between the onset of this amplitude ...
Martin Heil, Bettina Rolke (Psychophysiology, 200207)
toward-chronopsychophysiology-mental-rotation.asp

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Effect of mental imagery on realizing affordances.

Using a reaction time experiment, we examined whether imagining a response would lead to an increase in the frequency of its execution. During a pre-test and a post-test, participants had to respond as quickly as possible with either their left or their ...
Marc S J Boschker, Frank C Bakker, Claire F Michaels (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200207)
effect-mental-imagery-realizing-affordances.asp

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Aging and the representation of spatial situations in narrative understanding.

Age differences in the construction of the situation model during text understanding were investigated. Situation model processing was measured in terms of the distance effect, the tendency for readers to process information about objects in a narrative ...
Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow, Daniel G Morrow, Richard Leno (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200207)
aging-representation-spatial-situations-narrative-understanding.asp