Imagination

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Effect of mental imagery of a motor task on the Hoffmann reflex.

Research has found that mental imagery of a motor task may influence the Hoffmann reflex (H-reflex). However, this work has not examined the potential influence of background EMG (BEMG) on the H-reflex. In this study 23 adult participants (M=23.3 years, ...
B S Hale, J S Raglin, D M Koceja (Behav Brain Res, 200306)
effect-mental-imagery-motor-task-hoffmann-reflex.asp

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Task unrelated thought: the role of distributed processing.

Task unrelated thought (TUT) refers to thought directed away from the current situation; for example, a day dream. Encapsulated models of cognition propose that qualitative changes in consciousness, i.e., the production of TUT, can be explained in terms ...
Jonathan Smallwood, Marc Obonsawin, Derek Heim (Conscious Cogn, 200306)
task-unrelated-thought-role-distributed-processing.asp

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Factors of home dream recall: a structural equation model.

Previous research has indicated that personality factors such as openness to experience, creativity, visual memory, attitude toward dreams, and sleep behavior is related to home dream recall frequency (DRF). However, a study investigating all areas ...
Michael Schredl, Lutz Wittmann, Petra Ciric, Simon Götz (J Sleep Res, 200306)
factors-home-dream-recall-structural-equation-model.asp

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What you believe versus what you think they believe: a neuroimaging study of conceptual perspective-taking.

Social communication requires shared representations as well as a cognitive flexibility for successful interactions between self and other. What neural mechanisms underlie the ability to distinguish between our own perspective vs. the perspective of ...
Perrine Ruby, Jean Decety (Eur J Neurosci, 200306)
believe-versus-think-believe-neuroimaging-study-conceptual.asp

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Auditory imagery from musical notation in expert musicians.

Anecdotal evidence has suggested that musical notation can trigger auditory images. Expert musicians silently read scores containing well-known themes embedded into the notation of an embellished phrase and judged if a tune heard aloud thereafter was the ...
Warren Brodsky, Avishai Henik, Bat-Sheva Rubinstein, Moshe Zorman (Percept Psychophys, 200305)
auditory-imagery-musical-notation-expert-musicians.asp

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Brain activations during motor imagery of locomotor-related tasks: a PET study.

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to study the involvement of supraspinal structures in human locomotion. Six right-handed adults were scanned in four conditions while imagining locomotor-related tasks in the first person perspective: Standing ...
Francine Malouin, Carol L Richards, Philip L Jackson, Francine Dumas, Julien Doyon (Hum Brain Mapp, 200305)
brain-activations-motor-imagery-locomotor-related-tasks-pet-study.asp

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Motor imagery of phasic thumb abduction temporally and spatially modulates corticospinal excitability.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the spatial and temporal characteristics of the modulation of corticospinal and segmental excitability during actual and imagined movement of a single digit. METHODS: Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), motor evoked ...
Cathy M Stinear, Winston D Byblow (Clin Neurophysiol, 200305)
motor-imagery-phasic-thumb-abduction-temporally-spatially-modulates.asp

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What is primed in priming from imagery?

Priming from imagery is typically weaker than that from perception. This has been interpreted as resulting from weaker activation of perceptual processes. However, for imagery and perception, commonality is only half the story: Each is also characterized ...
Pascale Michelon, Jeffrey M Zacks (Psychol Res, 200305)
primed-priming-imagery.asp

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Reasoning, models, and images: behavioral measures and cortical activity.

The goal of this study was to investigate the neurocognitive processes of mental imagery in deductive reasoning. Behavioral studies yielded four sorts of verbal relations: (1) visuospatial relations that are easy to envisage both visually and spatially; ...
Markus Knauff, Thomas Fangmeier, Christian C Ruff, P N Johnson-Laird (J Cogn Neurosci, 200305)
reasoning-models-images-behavioral-measures-cortical-activity.asp

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The relationship between self-reports of imagery and spatial ability.

A puzzling question arising from imagery research is why no relationship has been found between self-reports of imagery and performance on spatial tests thought to require the use of imagery. To investigate this, spatial ability, measured by performance ...
Graham M Dean, Peter E Morris (Br J Psychol, 200305)
relationship-self-reports-imagery-spatial-ability.asp