The human imagination: the cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery

J Pearson - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With
methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves …

Mental imagery: functional mechanisms and clinical applications

J Pearson, T Naselaris, EA Holmes… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

A Hitchhiker's guide to functional magnetic resonance imaging

JM Soares, R Magalhães, PS Moreira… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies have become increasingly popular
both with clinicians and researchers as they are capable of providing unique insights into …

[HTML][HTML] A voxel-wise encoding model for early visual areas decodes mental images of remembered scenes

T Naselaris, CA Olman, DE Stansbury, K Ugurbil… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent multi-voxel pattern classification (MVPC) studies have shown that in early visual
cortex patterns of brain activity generated during mental imagery are similar to patterns of …

Remembering the past and imagining the future: a neural model of spatial memory and imagery.

P Byrne, S Becker, N Burgess - Psychological review, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors model the neural mechanisms underlying spatial cognition, integrating
neuronal systems and behavioral data, and address the relationships between long-term …

Analysis of functional image analysis contest (FIAC) data with brainvoyager QX: From single‐subject to cortically aligned group general linear model analysis and self …

R Goebel, F Esposito, E Formisano - Human brain mapping, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Functional Image Analysis Contest (FIAC) 2005 dataset was analyzed using
BrainVoyager QX. First, we performed a standard analysis of the functional and anatomical …

A neural-level model of spatial memory and imagery

A Bicanski, N Burgess - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
We present a model of how neural representations of egocentric spatial experiences in
parietal cortex interface with viewpoint-independent representations in medial temporal …

Investigating directed cortical interactions in time-resolved fMRI data using vector autoregressive modeling and Granger causality mapping

R Goebel, A Roebroeck, DS Kim… - Magnetic resonance …, 2003 - Elsevier
We present a framework aimed to reveal directed interactions of activated brain areas using
time-resolved fMRI and vector autoregressive (VAR) modeling in the context of Granger …

When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery?

SM Kosslyn, WL Thompson - Psychological bulletin, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Although many neuroimaging studies of visual mental imagery have revealed activation in
early visual cortex (Areas 17 or 18), many others have not. The authors review this literature …

Spatial cognition: evidence from visual neglect

PW Halligan, GR Fink, JC Marshall, G Vallar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2003 - cell.com
Recent work on human attention and representational systems has benefited from a growing
interplay between research on normal attention and neuropsychological disorders such as …