New research has revealed that people with the ability to visualize vividly have a stronger connection between their visual network and the regions of the brain linked to decision-making. The study ...

Visual mental imagery refers to the generation and manipulation of visual-like experiences in the absence of corresponding sensory input. It relies on distributed brain networks that overlap with ...

Trauma alone doesn't cause posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); how we process and imagine it plays a key role, according to new research. A recent Baycrest study suggests that having vivid visual ...

Visual mental imagery has long been a central topic in vision science. Recent research has increasingly emphasized individual variability in the experience of imagery, spanning a continuum from the ...

You may think you know what you like -- how to spend your time or what profession to pursue. But a new study suggests that your pre-existing self-beliefs, as well as cultural stereotypes, may ...

ABSTRACT: Tye argues that visual mental images have their contents encoded in topographically organized regions of the visual cortex, which support depictive representations; therefore, visual mental ...

The ability to conjure visual imagery varies considerably across people. On the high end of the spectrum, people with hyperphantasia report having extremely clear imagery. When they think about a red ...

How many times have you watched a book adaptation on film or TV, and felt disappointed when a scene wasn’t quite how you’d pictured it? Or perhaps a character looked nothing like you’d imagined them ...

Ten years ago, while walking down the stairs, my daughter fell ten steps, hit her head on a sharp edge and landed bleeding and twisted on the floor. She then convulsed and foamed at the mouth. Thank ...