Complex human social cognition has evolved in concert with risks for psychiatric disorders. Recently, autism and psychotic-affective conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression) have been posited as psychological 'opposites' with regard to social-cognitive phenotypes. Imagination, considered as 'forming new ideas, mental images, or concepts', represents a central facet of...

288 diff erent from that which is currently being perceived. Essentially, the imagination allows objects to be held in mind and thereby considered in the absence of their immediate presentation via perception. Th is capacity to hold in mind allows the consideration of relations among the objects of imagination and those of direct experience. Of course, the imagination allows the creation of nov...

introduction: brain computer interface (bci) systems based on movement imagination (mi) are widely used in recent decades. separate feature extraction methods are employed in the mi data sets and classified in virtual reality (vr) environments for real-time applications. methods: this study applied wide variety of features on the recorded data using linear discriminant analysis (lda) classifier...

Two experiments tested and confirmed the hypothesis that when the phenomenological characteristics of imagined events are more similar to those of related autobiographical memories, the imagined event is more likely to be considered to have occurred. At Time 1 and 2-weeks later, individuals rated the likelihood of occurrence for 20 life events. In Experiment 1, 1-week after Time 1, individuals ...

the problem of “imagination”, as raised by muslimphilosophers, has several epistemic consequences insubjects as diverse as ontology, prophecy,conceptualization and the functions of art. inilluminationist philosophy of suhrawardi, moreover, bearsthe topic of imagination a correlation to other subjects. ofthe foundations of suhrawardi's processing of the theoryof imagination, the most promin...

The eighteenth century is commonly thought of as the "age of reason", an age in which the imagination was not given a central role in the arts, far less in science. But in Hume's attempts to account for our belief in a continuing external world he is forced into invoking the activity of the imagination. His views on the activity of the imagination greatly influenced Adam Smith, who adapted them...

It is perhaps an uncontroversial truth that the imagination is important for creative thought. The terms ‘creative’ and ‘imaginative’ are often used interchangeably, at least in popular contexts. And volumes have been written on the imaginations of creative artists, not to mention poems, films, paintings, and other depictions of the same phenomenon. Kant recognized a connection between imaginat...

For reasons similar to those I have propounded regarding the matter of fungi in cholera evacuations, it seems to me to have been unnecessary for Dr. Lewis, in the report before me, to enter into an explanation of the appearances presented by animalcula), common to the water of certain drains and tanks in Calcutta, and cholera stools. Not only do I fail to understand the practical advantage to b...

The past 25 years have seen a rapid growth of knowledge about brain mechanisms involved in visual mental imagery. These advances have largely been made independently of the long history of philosophical - and even psychological - reckoning with imagery and its parent concept 'imagination'. We suggest that the view from these empirical findings can be widened by an appreciation of imagination's ...