Is it the real deal? Perception of virtual characters versus humans: an affective cognitive neuroscience perspective

AW de Borst, B de Gelder - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent developments in neuroimaging research support the increased use of naturalistic
stimulus material such as film, avatars, or androids. These stimuli allow for a better …

Vividness of visual imagery depends on the neural overlap with perception in visual areas

N Dijkstra, SE Bosch, MAJ van Gerven - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Research into the neural correlates of individual differences in imagery vividness point to an
important role of the early visual cortex. However, there is also great fluctuation of vividness …

Memories with a blind mind: Remembering the past and imagining the future with aphantasia

AJ Dawes, R Keogh, S Robuck, J Pearson - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Our capacity to re-experience the past and simulate the future is thought to depend heavily
on visual imagery, which allows us to construct complex sensory representations in the …

[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 …

Targeting the affective brain—a randomized controlled trial of real-time fMRI neurofeedback in patients with depression

DMA Mehler, MO Sokunbi, I Habes, K Barawi… - …, 2018 - nature.com
Functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback (fMRI-NF) training of areas involved
in emotion processing can reduce depressive symptoms by over 40% on the Hamilton …

[HTML][HTML] The neural correlates of visual imagery: A co-ordinate-based meta-analysis

CIP Winlove, F Milton, J Ranson, J Fulford… - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Visual imagery is a form of sensory imagination, involving subjective experiences typically
described as similar to perception, but which occur in the absence of corresponding external …

The neural dynamics of novel scene imagery

DN Barry, GR Barnes, IA Clark… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Retrieval of long-term episodic memories is characterized by synchronized neural activity
between hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), with additional …

Functional connectivity fingerprints of the frontal eye field and inferior frontal junction suggest spatial versus nonspatial processing in the prefrontal cortex

O Soyuhos, D Baldauf - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroimaging evidence suggests that the frontal eye field (FEF) and inferior frontal junction
(IFJ) govern the encoding of spatial and nonspatial (such as feature‐or object‐based) …

Feel the noise: relating individual differences in auditory imagery to the structure and function of sensorimotor systems

CF Lima, N Lavan, S Evans, Z Agnew… - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Humans can generate mental auditory images of voices or songs, sometimes perceiving
them almost as vividly as perceptual experiences. The functional networks supporting …

Dissociating cognitive processes during ambiguous information processing in perceptual decision-making

VA Maksimenko, A Kuc, NS Frolov… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Decision-making requires the accumulation of sensory evidence. However, in everyday life,
sensory information is often ambiguous and contains decision-irrelevant features. This …