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The human imagination: the cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery.
- Source :
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Nature reviews. Neuroscience [Nat Rev Neurosci] 2019 Oct; Vol. 20 (10), pp. 624-634. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves a network of brain areas from the frontal cortex to sensory areas, overlapping with the default mode network, and can function much like a weak version of afferent perception. Imagery vividness and strength range from completely absent (aphantasia) to photo-like (hyperphantasia). Both the anatomy and function of the primary visual cortex are related to visual imagery. The use of imagery as a tool has been linked to many compound cognitive processes and imagery plays both symptomatic and mechanistic roles in neurological and mental disorders and treatments.
- Subjects :
- Cognitive Neuroscience methods
Hippocampus diagnostic imaging
Hippocampus physiology
Humans
Memory physiology
Nerve Net diagnostic imaging
Visual Cortex diagnostic imaging
Cognitive Neuroscience trends
Imagination physiology
Nerve Net physiology
Visual Cortex physiology
Visual Perception physiology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1471-0048
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31384033
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-019-0202-9