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 …

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on the regulation of negative affect

EK Diekhof, K Geier, P Falkai, O Gruber - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Humans have the ability to control negative affect and perceived fear. Nevertheless, it is still
unclear whether this affect regulation capacity relies on a common neural mechanism in …

The role of the human ventral striatum and the medial orbitofrontal cortex in the representation of reward magnitude–An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis …

EK Diekhof, L Kaps, P Falkai, O Gruber - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
Reward maximization is a core motivation of every organism. In humans, several brain
regions have been implicated in the representation of reward magnitude. Still, it is unclear …

Rethinking explicit expectations: connecting placebos, social cognition, and contextual perception

KA Schwarz, R Pfister, C Büchel - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Expectancy effects are a widespread phenomenon, and they come with a lasting influence
on cognitive operations, from basic stimulus processing to higher cognitive functions. Their …

Disentangling predictive processing in the brain: a meta-analytic study in favour of a predictive network

L Ficco, L Mancuso, J Manuello, A Teneggi, D Liloia… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
According to the predictive coding (PC) theory, the brain is constantly engaged in predicting
its upcoming states and refining these predictions through error signals. Despite extensive …

Mental imagery: From basic research to clinical practice.

SE Blackwell - Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Imaginería mental se ha utilizado durante mucho tiempo en terapias psicológicas, pero solo
más recientemente han comenzado la investigación para iluminar las bases científicas …

An ideal second language self intervention: Development of possible selves in an English as a Foreign Language classroom context

J Mackay - System, 2019 - Elsevier
This study analyses the effects of a specifically-designed Ideal L2 self intervention based on
the principles outlined in Dörnyei's (2005, 2009) proposal of the L2 Motivational Self System …

[图书][B] Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience

B Nanay - 2023 - library.oapen.org
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 …

Belief updating in depression is not related to increased sensitivity to unexpectedly negative information

T Kube, L Kirchner, W Rief, T Gärtner… - Behaviour research and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background People with depression differ from healthy people in the extent to which they
use novel positive information to adjust negative expectations. In this study, we examined …

[HTML][HTML] Mental imagery, emotion and psychopathology across child and adolescent development

SB Heyes, JYF Lau, EA Holmes - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Mental imagery-based interventions are receiving increasing interest for the treatment of
psychological disorders in adults. This is based on evidence that mental imagery potently …