There is increasing evidence that imagination relies on similar neural mechanisms as
externally triggered perception. This overlap presents a challenge for perceptual reality …

Abstract Theories of Visual Mental Imagery (VMI) emphasize the processes of retrieval,
modification, and recombination of sensory information from long-term memory. Yet, only …

Visual mental imagery is the ability to create a quasi-perceptual visual picture in the mind's
eye. For people with the rare trait of aphantasia, this ability is entirely absent or markedly …

Visual working memory paradigms involve retaining and manipulating visual information in
mind over a period of seconds. Evidence suggests that visual imagery (sensory recruitment) …

The search for the neural correlates of consciousness is in need of a systematic, principled
foundation that can endow putative neural correlates with greater predictive and explanatory …

Patterns of brain activity contain meaningful information about the perceived world. Recent
decades have welcomed a new era in neural analyses, with computational techniques from …

Predictive coding is a promising framework for understanding brain function. It postulates
that the brain continuously inhibits predictable sensory input, ensuring preferential …

Visual imagery allows us to revisit the appearance of things in their absence and to test out
virtual combinations of sensory experience. Visual imagery has been linked to many …

Humans observe actions performed by others in many different visual and social settings.
What features do we extract and attend when we view such complex scenes, and how are …

Perception is a process of inference, integrating sensory inputs with prior expectations.
However, little is known regarding the temporal dynamics of this integration. It has been …