Imagination

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Neural correlates of visuospatial imagery.

We studied changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 10 healthy right-handed subjects during a visuospatial imagery task. The subjects task consisted of drawing imagined lines connecting encircled numbers in ascending order and estimating the ...
Boris Suchan, Lidia Yágüez, Gilbert Wunderlich, Anthony G M Canavan, Hans Herzog, Lutz Tellmann, Volker Hömberg, Rüdiger J Seitz (Behav Brain Res, 200204)
neural-correlates-visuospatial-imagery.asp

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Episodic action memory for real objects: an ERP investigation with perform, watch, and imagine action encoding tasks versus a non-action encoding task.

Cognitive research shows that people typically remember actions they perform better than those that they only watch or imagine doing, but also at times misremember doing actions they merely imagined or planned to do (source memory errors). Neural ...
Ava J Senkfor, Cyma Van Petten, Marta Kutas (J Cogn Neurosci, 200204)
episodic-action-memory-real-objects-erp-investigation-perform-watch.asp

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Temporal integration between visual images and visual percepts.

Using a temporal integration task, subjects in 5 experiments were expected to combine information from temporally separated visual presentations. Evidence from these experiments indicated that perceptual information can be integrated with previously ...
James R Brockmole, Ranxiao Frances Wang, David E Irwin (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200204)
temporal-integration-visual-images-visual-percepts.asp

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Exploring imagined movements in patients with schizophrenia.

Patients with schizophrenia demonstrate impairments indicative of an inability to accurately monitor internally generated images. Motor imagery measures the ability to generate internal images of intended but not executed motor movements. Ten patients ...
James Danckert, Yves Rossetti, Thierry dAmato, Jean Dalery, Mohamed Saoud (Neuroreport, 200204)
exploring-imagined-movements-patients-schizophrenia.asp

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Creating bizarre false memories through imagination.

The present study explored memory for familiar or usual actions (e.g., flip the coin) and bizarre or unusual actions (e.g., sit on the dice). In Session 1, action statements were presented to 210 participants, who had to either perform or imagine those ...
Ayanna K Thomas, Elizabeth F Loftus (Mem Cognit, 200204)
creating-bizarre-false-memories-imagination.asp

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Mental simulation inflates performance estimates for physical abilities.

In five experiments, we examined how mental simulation of physical activities affected estimates of ones ability to perform the same activities. In Experiment 1, participants who simulated lifting aheavy object estimated that they could lift more weight ...
Joshua D Landau, Terry M Libkuman, Jonathon C Wildman (Mem Cognit, 200204)
mental-simulation-inflates-performance-estimates-physical-abilities.asp

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Visual imagery can impede reasoning.

Although it is natural to suppose that visual mental imagery is important in human deductive reasoning, the evidence is equivocal. This article argues that reasoning studies have not distinguished between ease of visualization and ease of constructing ...
Markus Knauff, P N Johnson-Laird (Mem Cognit, 200204)
visual-imagery-impede-reasoning.asp

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Relation of transliminality and sensation seeking.

The Revised Transliminality Scale and Zuckermans Sensation Seeking Scale (Form V) were administered to 83 psychology undergraduates. Weak positive correlations suggested that participants scoring high on the Transliminality Scale tended to be more ...
Michael A Thalbourne, Mary Cochrane (Psychol Rep, 200204)
relation-transliminality-sensation-seeking.asp

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Most adults show opposite-side biases in the imagined holding of infants and objects.

Three hundred university undergraduates were asked to imagine holding in their arms first an object (either an "expensive vase" or an "old shoebox") and then a young infant. For all three tasks, side biases were found that were significantly different ...
Jason B Almerigi, Timothy J Carbary, Lauren Julius Harris (Brain Cogn, 200203-04)
adults-opposite-side-biases-imagined-holding-infants-objects.asp

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Category-specific naming and modality-specific imagery.

Some attempts to explain category-specific disorders have stressed how different modality knowledge bases (i.e., visual knowledge vs motoric/functional knowledge) may underlie the distinction between living and nonliving things. This study examined 60 ...
Keith R Laws (Brain Cogn, 200203-04)
category-specific-naming-modality-specific-imagery.asp