Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With
methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves …

Functional connectivity (FC) patterns in functional MRI exhibit dynamic behavior on the scale
of seconds, with rich spatiotemporal structure and limited sets of whole-brain, quasi-stable …

Can we better understand the unique mechanisms of de novo abilities in light of our current
knowledge of the psychological and neuroscientific literature on creativity? This review …

Despite mental imagery's ubiquitous role in human perception, cognition and behavior, one
standout question remains unanswered: Why does imagery vary so much from one …

A divide exists in the creativity literature as to whether relatively more or less executive
processing is beneficial to creative thinking. To explore this issue, we employ an individual …

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 …

Scientific findings have suggested a two-fold structure of the cognitive process. By using the
heuristic thinking mode, people automatically process information that tends to be invariant …

How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of
cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to …

What if depression could lead to positive change? Written by acceptance and commitment
therapy (ACT) cofounder Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson, this revised edition of the best …

To what degree mental imagery (MI) bears on the same neuronal processes as perception
has been a central question in the neurophysiological study of imagery. Sensory-recruitment …