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

Memories for events require adopting a particular visual perspective—viewing the past from
our own eyes or from an observerlike perspective in which we see ourselves in the memory …

Memories are prone to distortions, which have been linked to our unique point of view. Not
only do we experience events from a particular visual perspective, we can also retrieve …

Whether we are awake or asleep is believed to mark a sharp divide between the types of
conscious states we undergo in either behavioural state. Consciousness in sleep is often …

Transforming long-term conflicts into peaceful intergroup relations is one of the most difficult
challenges for humanity. Such meaningful social changes are often driven by young people …

Mind-wandering, the mind's capacity to stray from external events and generate task-
unrelated thought, has been associated with activity in the brain default network. To date …

Mind-wandering and daydreams (ie, spontaneous thoughts that are both task-unrelated and
decoupled from current sensory perceptions) have recently become the object of increased …

Consumption of the psychedelic brew ayahuasca is a central ritualistic aspect of the Santo
Daime religion. The current observational, baseline controlled study was designed to assess …

Individuals' psychological distance from the stimuli they encounter in daily life can influence
the abstractness or generality of the mental representations they form of these stimuli …

When remembering or imagining, people can experience an event from their own eyes, or
as an outside observer, with differing levels of vividness. The perspective from, and …