The human imagination: the cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery

J Pearson - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With
methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves …

[HTML][HTML] Mental imagery: functional mechanisms and clinical applications

J Pearson, T Naselaris, EA Holmes… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

[HTML][HTML] A voxel-wise encoding model for early visual areas decodes mental images of remembered scenes

T Naselaris, CA Olman, DE Stansbury, K Ugurbil… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent multi-voxel pattern classification (MVPC) studies have shown that in early visual
cortex patterns of brain activity generated during mental imagery are similar to patterns of …

[หนังสือ][B] The case for mental imagery

SM Kosslyn, WL Thompson, G Ganis - 2006 - books.google.com
When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the
window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For …

A neural-level model of spatial memory and imagery

A Bicanski, N Burgess - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
We present a model of how neural representations of egocentric spatial experiences in
parietal cortex interface with viewpoint-independent representations in medial temporal …

Remembering the past and imagining the future: a neural model of spatial memory and imagery.

P Byrne, S Becker, N Burgess - Psychological review, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors model the neural mechanisms underlying spatial cognition, integrating
neuronal systems and behavioral data, and address the relationships between long-term …

Visual mental imagery engages the left fusiform gyrus, but not the early visual cortex: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging evidence

A Spagna, D Hajhajate, J Liu, P Bartolomeo - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The dominant neural model of visual mental imagery (VMI) stipulates that memories from the
medial temporal lobe acquire sensory features in early visual areas. However, neurological …

When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery?

SM Kosslyn, WL Thompson - Psychological bulletin, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Although many neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery have revealed activation in
early visual cortex (Areas 17 or 18), many others have not. The authors review this literature …

[HTML][HTML] The neural correlates of visual imagery: A co-ordinate-based meta-analysis

CIP Winlove, F Milton, J Ranson, J Fulford… - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Visual imagery is a form of sensory imagination, involving subjective experiences typically
described as similar to perception, but which occur in the absence of corresponding external …