Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
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Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical research that has reshaped our understanding of mental imagery. Research supports the claim that visual mental imagery is a depictive internal representation that functions like a weak form of perception. Brain imaging work...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1364-6613
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.003