Comprehending high-imagery sentences like The number eight when rotated 90 degrees looks like a pair of eyeglasses involves the participation and integration of several cortical regions. The linguistic content must be processed to determine what is to be mentally imaged, and then the mental image must be evaluated and related to the sentence. A theory of cortical underconnectivity in autism pre...

The present study compared sensitivity for auditory and visual signals in a simple detection task and in a related task in which ,9 was also imaging mental pictures and sounds. Sensitivity (rf') was reduced during imagery; within the imaging conditions, it was smaller when image and signal were both auditory or both visual than for cross-modal conditions and smaller with unfamiliar than familia...

Sensory imagery is a powerful tool for inducing craving because it is a key component of the cognitive system that underpins human motivation. The role of sensory imagery in motivation is explained by Elaborated Intrusion (EI) theory. Imagery plays an important role in motivation because it conveys the emotional qualities of the desired event, mimicking anticipated pleasure or relief, and conti...

The interest in the cognitive phenomena linked to mental imagery and to reasoning with mental images has sparked the development of numerous conceptual and computational models from different scientific backgrounds. These models serve to explain cognitive processes or to improve technical reasoning models. Our aim in this paper is to identify a number of requirements that are essential for any ...

Recently it has been suggested that, somehow similarly to visual saccadic suppression, saccades interrupt some mental activities. After demonstrating that spontaneous eye movements can be used to trace the instantaneous evolution of mental imagery, we show here that making a voluntary saccade or anti-saccade as a secondary task introduces a large delay in a concurrent motion imagery task. An id...

Motor imagery, the 'mental rehearsal of motor acts without overt movements', involves either a visual representation (visual imagery, VI) or mental simulation of movement, associated with a kinesthetic feeling (kinetic imagery, KI). Previous brain imaging work suggests that patterns of brain activation differ when comparing execution (E) with either type of imagery but the functional connectivi...

Reference data (“ground truth”) maps have traditionally been used to assess the accuracy of classification algorithms. These maps typically classify pixels or areas of imagery as belonging to a finite number of ground cover classes, but do not include sub-pixel abundance estimates; therefore, they are not sufficiently detailed to directly assess the performance of spectral unmixing algorithms. ...

repetition figure of speech is one of the aesthetic and technical aspects of the holy quran. there are stories of quran which are repeated in other surahs. the story of moses & pharaoh is one of the most frequent ones. this repetition occurs weather through bringing examples from the story which are in accordance with the situation or by quoting some parts of it. this repetition adds to the tec...

If the author wishes to bring the imagery debate to the artificial intelligence (AI) community, I believe it is important that we begin with a better definition of what one means by “imagery.” Of course, almost all humans have an intuition about what it is like to imagine something; but it is doubtful that such experiences inform us very much about the format or processes underlying imagery. Ho...

The present study investigated the effects of age and arm preference on motor imagery ability. Children (groups: 6.5, 8.3, and 10.1 years) and young adults (22.4 years) physically or mentally performed a drawing motor task with the right or the left arm. Imagery ability, accessed by the timing correspondence between executed and imagined movements, was poor at 6 and 8 years but improved at age ...