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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 624-634Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-019-0202-9
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- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1024800, APP1046198, APP1085404]
- Australian Research Council [DP140101560]
- Career Development Fellowship [APP1049596]
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Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves a network of brain areas from the frontal cortex to sensory areas, overlapping with the default mode network, and can function much like a weak version of afferent perception. Imagery vividness and strength range from completely absent (aphantasia) to photo-like (hyperphantasia). Both the anatomy and function of the primary visual cortex are related to visual imagery. The use of imagery as a tool has been linked to many compound cognitive processes and imagery plays both symptomatic and mechanistic roles in neurological and mental disorders and treatments.
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