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Is mental imagery prominently visual?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Affiliation:
ECONA (Interuniversity Center for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems) and Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Rome, Italymarta.olivetti@uniroma1.itrosalia.dimatteo@uniroma1.it
Rosalia Di Matteo
Affiliation:
ECONA (Interuniversity Center for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems) and Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Rome, Italymarta.olivetti@uniroma1.itrosalia.dimatteo@uniroma1.it

Abstract

Neuroimaging and psychophysiological techniques have proved to be useful in comprehending the extent to which the visual modality is pervasive in mental imagery, and in comprehending the specificity of images generated through other sensory modalities. Although further research is needed to understand the nature of mental images, data attained by means of these techniques suggest that mental imagery requires at least two distinct processing components.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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