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mental imagery  

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  • The process of generating a mental and sensory representation (visual, auditory, etc.) of an event or object that the subject has previously perceived or created by him or herself. Mental imagery can be used as a strategy to enhance memory performance.

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  • imagination
  • mental image

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Morton, C., & MacLeod, A. K. (2023). Vividness of imagery and affective response to episodic memories and episodic future thoughts: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Memory, 31(8), 1098–1110. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2224609

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
  • • Nanay, B. (2021). Mental imagery. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/mental-imagery/

    [Study type: conceptual analysis, literature review / Access: free]
  • • Nanay, B. (2023). Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809500.001.0001

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Pearson, J. (2019). The human imagination : The cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 20(10), 624‑634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-019-0202-9

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Sahadevan, S. S., Chen, Y. Y., & Caplan, J. B. (2021). Imagery-based strategies for memory for associations. Memory, 29(10), 1275–1295. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1978095

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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