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- The strength of a person’s mental imagery – their ability to picture something in their mind’s eye – is linked to the excitability of different brain regions, a study led by researchers at UNSW Sydney has found. An excitable prefrontal cortex made a person more likely to visualise strong images, while the opposite was true in the visual cortex.
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Aug 26, 2024 · Scientists are why some people can visualize these kinds of scenarios more easily than others can. Even the same person can be better or worse at picturing things in their mind at...
Sep 2, 2024 · Scientists are hard at work trying to understand why some people can visualize these kinds of scenarios more easily than others can. Even the same person can be better or worse at picturing...
Aug 5, 2019 · Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves a network of...
- Joel Pearson
- jpearson@unsw.edu.au
- 2019
Aug 29, 2024 · Scientists are hard at work trying to understand why some people can visualize these kinds of scenarios more easily than others can. Even the same person can be better or worse at picturing things in their mind at different times.
Nov 18, 1997 · If you close your eyes and visualize an apple, what you experience is mental imagery – visual imagery. But mental imagery is far more pervasive in our mental life than just visualizing. It happens in all sense modalities and it plays a crucial role not just in perception, but also in memory, emotions, language, desires and action-execution.
Mental imagery, the brain's ability to visualize scenarios without physical input, is vital for memory, skill development, and recovery from brain injuries. Learn how the visual and prefrontal cortices play key roles in this process.
The most important of these is that there are very significant and well-documented differences between individuals when it comes to mental imagery: some people do not experience mental imagery at all—I will say a lot more about the philosophical significance of this in Chapter 3. Some others have very vivid mental imagery.