When people read a book, they typically imagine the story in their heads. But how do people experience a story if they find it difficult or impossible to imagine what is being described? Cognitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scientific literature considers music either as an abstract stimulus, devoid of explicit meaning, or a universal language. Music listening rarely involves exclusive focus on the sounds themselves.