OBJECTIVES Chronic skin diseases have been recognized as having a detrimental effect on patients' quality of life, also causing considerable mental discomfort. Reduced self-acceptance, low self-esteem, a negative body image, and a low sense of self-worth have been noted in patients with visible skin disorders. Yet in the available literature we could not find any data concerning the relationshi...

The research reported in the present article investigates whether information is represented the same way in both visual mental imagery and the early phases of visual perception. In Experiment 1, the same participants scanned over patterns of dots in a mental image (with images based on a just-seen pattern), during perception, and in an iconic image. The time to scan increasing distances increa...

This paper presents a generic image-based features classification system for EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system which may be applied to any kind of mental tasks. The time-frequency analysis (TFA) and image processing technique are used to extract image-based features from the EEG signal. The feature templates, called Matched Filter, are performed to form feature vector with which t...

    Adolescence is fraught with physical and psychological changes, including trait level changes in major domains of personality. Trying toadaptapersonwithphysical and emotional moodchanges may cause a negativeinfluenceon the development ofmental disordersinadolescents. Thus, a plan shouldbe developedforawarenessin relation to these modificationsuntil the needs ofadolescentsinthesensitiveperio...

We reanalyzed data reported in previous mental imagery experiments (D’Angiulli, 2001; D’Angiulli & Reeves, 2002). The data consisted of self-reported image vividness ratings (1 = no image; 7 = perfectly vivid) and image latencies (image completion RTs) for “small” (i.e., subtending < 16) and “large” (i.e., > 16) images, in two image generation conditions: trial-unique and repeated. In the origi...

Can you easily form mental pictures from the descriptions of scenery that are so frequently met with in novels and books of travel? More than 100 years ago Francis Galton [1] sent out a list of questions, including this one, to gather statistics on the character of mental imagery. Many people reported vivid mental imagery, but not the scientists on his list. “To my astonishment”, Galton reporte...

Performance is often impaired linearly with increasing angular disparity between two objects in tasks that measure mental rotation or object recognition. But increased angular disparity is often accompanied by changes in the similarity between views of an object, confounding the impact of the two factors in these tasks. We examined separately the effects of angular disparity and image similarit...