Imagination

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Motivational orientations and imagery use: a goal profiling analysis.

The aim of this study was to establish whether different motivational profiles that result from performing a cluster analysis reflect the use of different functions and amounts of imagery. One hundred and five competitive swimmers were recruited to ...
Jennifer Cumming, Craig Hall, Chris Harwood, Kimberley Gammage (J Sports Sci, 200202)
motivational-orientations-imagery-goal-profiling-analysis.asp

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Deliberate imagery practice: the development of imagery skills in competitive athletes.

The aim of this study was to examine mental imagery within the context of the deliberate practice framework. Altogether, 159 athletes from one of three different competitive standards (recreational, provincial and national) completed the Deliberate ...
Jennifer Cumming, Craig Hall (J Sports Sci, 200202)
deliberate-imagery-practice-development-imagery-skills-competitive.asp

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Object-related knowledge and the production of gestures with imagined objects by preschool children.

Previous research suggests that the gestural representation of preschool age children has a symbolic quality in the absence of real objects. It has shown a developmental progression from use of concrete body parts to more abstract imaginary-object ...
Takasfii Mizuguchi, Kuniaki Sugai (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
object-related-knowledge-production-gestures-imagined-objects.asp

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Smiling, frowning, and autonomic activity in mildly depressed and nondepressed men in response to emotional imagery of social contexts.

The study examined self-reported emotion and facial muscle and autonomic activity of depressed and nondepressed men in response to the social context of emotional situations. 20 university men, assessed on the Beck Depression Inventory, were asked to ...
Jean-Guido Gehricke, Alan J Fridlund (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
smiling-frowning-autonomic-activity-mildly-depressed-nondepressed-men.asp

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Lack of association of computer use and ability with spontaneous mental visualization.

Relationships between frequency of computer use or ability to use the computer effectively with the tendency to construct and process visual mental images were investigated by administering a computer-use questionnaire and a visualization questionnaire ...
Alessandro Antonietti, Barbara Colombo, Maria José Pérez-Fabello (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
lack-association-computer-ability-spontaneous-mental-visualization.asp

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Estimating the mutual information of an EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface.

An EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) could be used as an additional communication channel between human thoughts and the environment. The efficacy of such a BCI depends mainly on the transmitted information rate. Shannons communication theory was ...
A Schlögl, C Neuper, G Pfurtscheller (Biomed Tech (Berl), 200201-02)
estimating-mutual-information-eeg-based-brain-computer-interface.asp

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Theories of word naming interact with spelling-sound consistency.

In a previous study (E. Strain, K. Patterson, & M. S. Seidenberg, 1995), the authors concluded that word naming is characterized by an interaction between spelling-sound typicality and word imageability, thus implicating a role for word meaning in the ...
Eamon Strain, Karalyn Patterson, Mark S Seidenberg (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200201)
theories-word-naming-interact-spelling-sound-consistency.asp

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Effects of affective picture viewing and imagery on respiratory resistance in nonasthmatic individuals.

We studied the modulation of oscillatory resistance (R(os)) by viewing and imagery of affective pictures. Thirty nonasthmatic participants viewed 36 affective slides precategorized as positive, neutral, and negative in valence. Each picture was presented ...
Thomas Ritz, Saija Alatupa, Miriam Thöns, Bernhard Dahme (Psychophysiology, 200201)
effects-affective-picture-viewing-imagery-respiratory-resistance.asp

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Neural substrates of animal mental imagery: calcarine sulcus and dorsal pathway involvement--an fMRI study.

Neural response was measured using fMRI in six healthy volunteers, performing a mental imagery task, using verbal cues exclusively. They listened to a list of animal names from which to generate a mental image, and listened passively to a list of ...
Séverine Lambert, Eliana Sampaio, Christian Scheiber, Yves Mauss (Brain Res, 200201)
neural-substrates-animal-mental-imagery-calcarine-sulcus-dorsal.asp

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What exactly interacts with spelling-sound consistency in word naming?

Word frequency, age of acquisition (AoA), and imageability were combined with spelling-sound consistency, and their effects on word naming were examined. Frequency and AoA interacted with consistency (Experiments 1 and 2). Imageability did not ...
Josephine Monaghan, Andrew W Ellis (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200201)
exactly-interacts-spelling-sound-consistency-word-naming.asp