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

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

Although functional and structural abnormalities in brain regions involved in the
neurobiology of fear and anxiety have been observed in patients with social anxiety disorder …

Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the
way we think? How can we improve our memory? Fundamentals of Cognition, third edition …

In everyday discourse, people describe and point at things, but they also depict things with
their hands, arms, head, face, eyes, voice, and body, with and without props. Examples are …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Mental imagery has been considered relevant to psychopathology due to its supposed
special relationship with emotion, although evidence for this assumption has been …

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 …

Pity the poor textbook writer. I suspect that a common motivation for writing textbooks is the
dissatisfaction with existing textbooks, yet having embarked upon writing one's own then …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …