Imagination

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Abnormalities of motor imagery associated with somatic passivity phenomena in schizophrenia.

Some patients with schizophrenia report that their limbs are under the control of an alien force (motor passivity). This is hypothesised to be due to the dysfunction of an internal self-monitoring system that normally permits distinctions between ...
Paul Maruff, Peter Wilson, Jon Currie (Schizophr Res, 200304)
abnormalities-motor-imagery-associated-somatic-passivity-phenomena.asp

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Self-awareness and action.

In this review we discuss how we are aware that actions are self-generated. We review behavioural data that suggest that a prediction of the sensory consequences of movement might be used to label actions and their consequences as self-generated. We also ...
Sarah Jayne Blakemore, Chris Frith (Curr Opin Neurobiol, 200304)
self-awareness-action.asp

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A cognitive-behavioural analysis of mental toughness in national rugby league football teams.

This study examined the relations between demographic characteristics of rugby players and selected aspects of psychological performance in rugby league football. Mental toughness was assessed using Psychological Performance Inventory and Hardiness on ...
Jim Golby, Michael Sheard, David Lavallee (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
cognitive-behavioural-analysis-mental-toughness-national-rugby-league.asp

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Neural correlates of "hot" and "cold" emotional processing: a multilevel approach to the functional anatomy of emotion.

The neural correlates of two hypothesized emotional processing modes, i.e., schematic and propositional modes, were investigated with positron emission tomography. Nineteen subjects performed an emotional mental imagery task while mentally repeating ...
Alexandre Schaefer, Fabienne Collette, Pierre Philippot, Martial van der Linden, Steven Laureys, Guy Delfiore, Christian Degueldre, Pierre Maquet, Andre Luxen, Eric Salmon (Neuroimage, 200304)
neural-correlates-hot-cold-emotional-processing-multilevel-approach.asp

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Inspiring patient loyalty, not satisfaction.

The distinction between loyalty and satisfaction is a significant one that requires staff to go above and beyond what is expected (i.e., satisfaction). In Lees experience, most stories of patient loyalty have to do with empathy, caring and ...
Fred Lee (Trustee, 200304)
inspiring-patient-loyalty-not-satisfaction.asp

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Does mental simulation of following a path improve navigation performance without vision?

We recorded the paths of subjects who walked along a memorized hexagonal route without vision, and studied the impact of previous mental simulation of this activity on how well the path could be reproduced from memory. We compared two kinds of mental ...
Stéphane Vieilledent, Stephen M Kosslyn, Alain Berthoz, Marie Dominique Giraudo (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
mental-simulation-following-path-improve-navigation-performance-vision.asp

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Contralateral coding of imagined body parts in the superior parietal lobe.

In monkeys, neurons in the superior parietal lobe (area 5) code for spatial position of contralateral body parts by combining visual and somatosensory signals. Using a modified version of the classical mental rotation task, we were able to demonstrate ...
T Wolbers, C Weiller, C Büchel (Cereb Cortex, 200304)
contralateral-coding-imagined-body-parts-superior-parietal-lobe.asp

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Pre-sleep imagery under the microscope: a comparison of patients with insomnia and good sleepers.

During the pre-sleep period and in the natural home environment patients with insomnia (N=20) and good sleepers (N=20) were asked to record when an image came to mind by pressing a handheld counter. They then provided an oral description of the image and ...
J Nelson, A G Harvey (Behav Res Ther, 200303)
pre-sleep-imagery-under-microscope-comparison-patients-insomnia-good.asp

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Covert muscle excitation is outflow from the central generation of motor imagery.

Two studies were conducted in an attempt to examine inflow and outflow processing by examining covert muscle excitation during motor imagery (MI) and its correlation with motor task performance. Examining 80 novice dart throwers in Experiment 1, MI ...
Rafer S Lutz (Behav Brain Res, 200303)
covert-muscle-excitation-outflow-central-generation-motor-imagery.asp

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Egocentric organization of spatial activities in imagined navigation.

Studies on spatial frameworks suggest that the way we locate objects in imagined environments is influenced by the physical and functional properties of the world and our body. The present study provides evidence that such an influence also characterizes ...
Marios N Avraamides, Richard A Carlson (Mem Cognit, 200303)
egocentric-organization-spatial-activities-imagined-navigation.asp