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

Sleep is a universal, essential biological process. It is also an invaluable window on
consciousness. It tells us that consciousness can be lost but also that it can be regained, in …

Aphantasia describes the experience of individuals who self-report a lack of voluntary visual
imagery. It is not yet known whether individuals with aphantasia show deficits in cognitive …

Visual working memory paradigms involve retaining and manipulating visual information in
mind over a period of seconds. Evidence suggests that visual imagery (sensory recruitment) …

It has been suggested that visual images are memorized across brief periods of time by
vividly imagining them as if they were still there. In line with this, the contents of both working …

Background Pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods of inducing altered states
of consciousness (ASCs) are becoming increasingly relevant in the treatment of psychiatric …

Reading acquisition is enabled by deep changes in the brain's visual system and language
areas, and in the links subtending their collaboration. Disruption of those plastic processes …

Schematic prior knowledge can scaffold the construction of event memories during
perception and also provide structured cues to guide memory search during retrieval. We …

The vividness of imagery varies between individuals. However, the existence of people in
whom conscious, wakeful imagery is markedly reduced, or absent entirely, was neglected by …

A new kind of sequence–to–sequence model called a transformer has been applied to
electroencephalogram (EEG) systems. However, the majority of EEG–based transformer …