A long-standing tradition in personality research in psychology, and nowadays increasingly
in psychiatry, is that psychotic and psychotic-like thoughts are considered common …

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

For most people the use of visual imagery is pervasive in daily life, but for a small group of
people the experience of visual imagery is entirely unknown. Research based on subjective …

Aphantasia, ie, the congenital inability to experience voluntary mental imagery, offers a new
model for studying the functional role of mental imagery in (visual) cognition. However, until …

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 …

This review focuses on the viability of working memory impairment as an endophenotypic
marker of a schizophrenia diathesis. It begins with an introduction of the construct of working …

Complex human social cognition has evolved in concert with risks for psychiatric disorders.
Recently, autism and psychotic-affective conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder …

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 …

Visual experiences can be triggered externally, by signals coming from the outside world
during perception; or internally, by signals from memory during mental imagery. Imagery and …

Visual hallucinations occur when our conscious experience does not accurately reflect
external reality. However, these dissociations also regularly occur when we imagine the …