Scientific attention to mental imagery dates to the 19th century when Francis Galton (1880)
prompted subjects to form mental pictures as visual representations of absent objects …

Mental imagery is an under-explored field in clinical psychology research but presents a
topic of potential interest and relevance across many clinical disorders, including social …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

Mental health concerns represent a critical global issue, necessitating innovative and
effective therapeutic strategies. Mental imagery, a cognitive approach involving the creation …

This paper introduces a novel thesis about mental imagery; namely, that it is grease for the
mind's gears (MGT). MGT is not a vague analogy. Rather, it outlines an important and …

Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years,
and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical …

What are mental images needed for? A variety of everyday situations calls for us to plan
ahead; one of the clever ways our mind prepares and strategizes our next move is through …

Most people say they can easily conjure mental sensations, such as mentally picturing their
mother's face or having a vivid representation of a fictional world when reading a good book …

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 …