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Multimodal mental imagery.
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- Mental imagery modulates bistable perception in a modality-specific manner.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Functional connectivity study on visually evoked auditory response based on high-density electroencephalography.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Semantical Visual Information Facilitates Odor Imagery: A Combined Neurophysiological and Psychometrical Approach.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Neurodiversity in mental simulation: conceptual but not visual imagery priming modulates perception across the imagery vividness spectrum.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Simultaneous EEG and fNIRS recordings for semantic decoding of imagined animals and tools.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Multimodal MRI-based radiomics in an ASD rat model: investigating brain structural changes and the neuroprotective effects of selenium.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Tactile imagery affects cortical responses to vibrotactile stimulation of the fingertip.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Imaging-genomic spatial-modality attentive fusion for studying neuropsychiatric disorders.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Using data from cue presentations results in grossly overestimating semantic BCI performance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Hedonic Experience Associated with a Gentle Touch Is Preserved in Women with Fibromyalgia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Sensory translation between audition and vision.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- The Effect of Internal and external imagery on learning badminton long serve skill: The role of visual and audiovisual imagery.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Stroop effect and mental imagery.Perception · 2024Article
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- Music listening evokes story-like visual imagery with both idiosyncratic and shared content.PloS one · 2023Article
- Definition and attributes of the emotional memory images underlying psychophysiological dis-ease.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Individual differences in mental imagery in different modalities and levels of intentionality.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Amodal completion and relationalism.Philosophical studies · 2022Article
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Abstract
When I am looking at my coffee machine that makes funny noises, this is an instance of multisensory perception - I perceive this event by means of both vision and audition. But very often we only receive sensory stimulation from a multisensory event by means of one sense modality, for example, when I hear the noisy coffee machine in the next room, that is, without seeing it. The aim of this paper is to bring together empirical findings about multimodal perception and empirical findings about (visual, auditory, tactile) mental imagery and argue that on occasions like this, we have multimodal mental imagery: perceptual processing in one sense modality (here: vision) that is triggered by sensory stimulation in another sense modality (here: audition). Multimodal mental imagery is not a rare and obscure phenomenon. The vast majority of what we perceive are multisensory events: events that can be perceived in more than one sense modality - like the noisy coffee machine. And most of the time we are only acquainted with these multisensory events via a subset of the sense modalities involved - all the other aspects of these multisensory events are represented by means of multisensory mental imagery. This means that multisensory mental imagery is a crucial element of almost all instances of everyday perception.
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