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 ...

Previous studies have shown that prolonged inspection of a tilted visual pattern leads to changes in perception ("tilt after-effect", TAE), as well as to a reduction of the neural activation evoked by this pattern ("neural adaptation"). In this fMRI study, we investigated whether such perceptual and neural adaptation can be induced solely by mental imagination. The subjects were asked to mental...

Abstract Poetry evokes mental imagery in its readers. But how is precisely related to poetry? This article provides a systematic treatment. It clarifies two roles of relation poetry—as an effect generated by poetry and as efficient means for understanding appreciating poetry. The also relates the discussion on ‘heresy paraphrase’. argues against orthodox view that imagistic effects cannot be ca...

Visual perception and visual mental imagery, the faculty whereby we can revisualise a visual item from memory, have often been regarded as cognitive functions subserved by common mechanisms. Thus, the leading cognitive model of visual mental imagery holds that visual perception and visual imagery share a number of mental operations, and rely upon common neural structures, including early visual...

Mental imagery is thought to share properties with perception. To what extent does the process of imagining a scene share neural circuits and computational mechanisms with actually perceiving the same scene? Here, we investigated whether mental imagery of motion in a particular direction recruits neural circuits tuned to the same direction of perceptual motion. To address this question we made ...

This article presents a case example of an individual with current major depression engaging in a positive mental imagery intervention, specifically a computerized cognitive training paradigm involving repeated practice in generating positive imagery in response to ambiguous scenarios. The patient's reported experience of the intervention suggests the potential of the positive imagery intervent...

BACKGROUND Research has implicated causal, mediating and meaningful roles for mental imagery in the experience of psychological distress, including self-injury. AIMS The present study aimed to further the understanding of this relationship through exploring the lived experiences of mental imagery from the perspective of those who self-injure. METHOD This study employed an inductive qualitat...

Prospective negative cognitions are suggested to play an important role in maintaining anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder (MDD). However, little is known about positive prospective mental imagery. This study investigated differences in prospective mental imagery among 27 patients with anxiety disorders, 24 patients with MDD, and 32 control participants. Measures of both deliberatel...