Every day, we call upon a unique capacity of our brain, visual mental imagery, which allows us to visualise images, objects or people 'in our heads'. Based on the recent case of a patient with a ...

In a workshop called “Writing from the Senses,” novelist Janet Fitch taught us to how to see light (Fitch 2020). To describe a scene visually, so that readers can imagine it, a writer needs to think ...

When people focus on mental images, their brains use a distinct route from visual attention, showing separate systems for ...

To abuse the first sentence of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is ...

The study of aphantasia—the congenital inability to voluntarily generate visual imagery—has rapidly evolved into a dynamic field that bridges cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Researchers have ...

" Our test, called the Imagination Perception Battery (BIP), is designed to assess the link between perception and mental imagery through the different visual qualities that enable a scene to be ...

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 ...

Thanks to 7T fMRI, researchers from Paris Brain Institute and NeuroSpin, the CEA's neuroimaging center, are exploring the neural substrate of visual imagery at very high resolution for the first time.

Some individuals experience a lack of any imagery in the mind's eye. As you read this, take a quick look around and pick an object that catches your eye. Give it a good look. Stare at it for a while.

Psychedelic drugs like LSD, DMT, and psilocybin are known for their ability to trigger kaleidoscopic visual hallucinations, raising interesting questions about how people with aphantasia – or the lack ...