Imagination - Research News and Information

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Mental imagery skills and topographical orientation in humans: a correlation study.

10 Oct 2008 Several studies provide evidence that mental imagery is critical for human navigation. However, the contribution of different mental imagery abilities to the individuals' skill of using specific orientation strategies... Read more...

"Perhaps you only imagined doing it": reality-monitoring in obsessive-compulsive checkers using semi-idiographic stimuli.

Sep 2008 Memory failures reported by obsessive-compulsive (OC) checkers often seem to be errors of "reality-monitoring", or misremembering whether one performed or imagined performing an action. To examine these memory processes... Read more...

Obsessive compulsive symptoms and the simulation of future negative events.

Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: To explore whether Kahneman and Tversky's (1982) simulation heuristic might help account for why the obsessions of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are so compelling to them. It was predicted... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Imagination'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mental imagery skills and topographical orientation in humans: a correlation study. 10 Oct 2008
• "Perhaps you only imagined doing it": reality-monitoring in obsessive-compulsive checkers using semi-idiographic stimuli. Sep 2008
• Obsessive compulsive symptoms and the simulation of future negative events. Sep 2008
• Synaesthesia is associated with enhanced, self-rated visual imagery. Sep 2008
• Dynamic premotor-to-parietal interactions during spatial imagery. 20 Aug 2008
• Exposure to smoking imagery in popular films and adolescent smoking in Mexico. Aug 2008
• Kinesthetic motor imagery and spinal excitability: the effect of contraction intensity and spatial localization. Aug 2008
• Differences in motor imagery between children with developmental coordination disorder with and without the combined type of ADHD. Aug 2008
• Seeing and imagining the "same" objects in unilateral neglect. Aug 2008
• Imagery: mental pictures disrupt perceptual rivalry. 22 Jul 2008
• Functional neuroanatomical networks associated with expertise in motor imagery. 15 Jul 2008
• The functional impact of mental imagery on conscious perception. 8 Jul 2008
• Inspecting visual mental images: can people "see" implicit properties as easily in imagery and perception? Jul 2008
• Cerebral correlates of motor imagery of normal and precision gait. Jul 2008
• Neural mechanisms involved in mental imagery and observation of gait. Jul 2008
• Effects of mental imagery styles on shoulder and hip rotations during preparation of pirouettes. Jul 2008
• The referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions. Jul 2008
• Self in time: imagined self-location influences neural activity related to mental time travel. 18 Jun 2008
• Meeting George Bush versus meeting Cinderella: the neural response when telling apart what is real from what is fictional in the context of our reality. Jun 2008
• Combining path analysis with time-resolved functional magnetic resonance imaging: the neurocognitive network underlying mental rotation. Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Imagination'

Definition: A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience.

Descriptor UI: D007092

Alternative terms: Imagination; Imaginations;

Related Mesh Headings: Imagery (Psychotherapy);

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.634;

Technical Notes: note see related IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY): use of images & imagery as a psychother technique so do not confuse with images produced by the imagination ( = IMAGINATION)