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

Perception and perceptual decision-making are strongly facilitated by prior knowledge about
the probabilistic structure of the world. While the computational benefits of using prior …

Humans are voracious imaginers, with internal simulations supporting memory, planning
and decision-making. Because the neural mechanisms supporting imagery overlap with …

For most people, visual imagery is an innate feature of many of our internal experiences,
and appears to play a critical role in supporting core cognitive processes. Some individuals …

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

The possible ways that information can be represented mentally have been discussed often
over the past thousand years. However, this issue could not be addressed rigorously until …

When I am looking at my coffee machine that makes funny noises, this is an instance of
multisensory perception–I perceive this event by means of both vision and audition. But very …

Abstract Using the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire we selected 14 high-scoring
and 15 low-scoring healthy participants from an initial sample of 111 undergraduates. The …

Imagination will remain a mystery—we will not be able to explain imagination—until we can
break it into simpler parts that are more easily understood. Explaining Imagination is a …

The way we perceive the world is strongly influenced by our expectations. In line with this,
much recent research has revealed that prior expectations strongly modulate sensory …