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Is mental imagery prominently visual?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Marta Olivetti Belardinelli  and
Rosalia Di Matteo
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, Italy marta.olivetti@uniroma1.it rosalia.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, Italy marta.olivetti@uniroma1.it rosalia.dimatteo@uniroma1.it
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Abstract

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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.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 204 - 205
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press