ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Unconscious mental imagery.
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- Vividness of mental imagery reflects a broad range of internally generated visual experiences.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- The aphantasia-hyperphantasia spectrum.Neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- Task evoked EEG reveals neural processing differences in aphantasia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dissociating voluntary mental imagery and mental simulation: Evidence from aphantasia.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- The Phenomenology of Offline Perception: Multisensory Profiles of Voluntary Mental Imagery and Dream Imagery.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Vivid imagery of objects primes perception of subliminal spatial information.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Interoception, insula, and agency: a predictive coding account of aphantasia.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review of Aphantasia: Concept, Measurement, Neural Basis, and Theory Development.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Uncovering the Role of the Early Visual Cortex in Visual Mental Imagery.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- The Stroop effect and mental imagery.Perception · 2024Article
- Diversity of aphantasia revealed by multiple assessments of visual imagery, multisensory imagery, and cognitive style.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Decreased associative processing and memory confidence in aphantasia.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Definition and attributes of the emotional memory images underlying psychophysiological dis-ease.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Amodal completion and relationalism.Philosophical studies · 2022Article
- Aphantasia and psychological disorder: Current connections, defining the imagery deficit and future directions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Offline perception: an introduction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The Neural Correlates of Access Consciousness and Phenomenal Consciousness Seem to Coincide and Would Correspond to a Memory Center, an Activation Center and Eight Parallel Convergence Centers.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Origins and Evolution of Imagination, From Australopithecus to Modern-Day Deep Learning.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive scienceReview
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Abstract
Historically, mental imagery has been defined as an experiential state-as something necessarily conscious. But most behavioural or neuroimaging experiments on mental imagery-including the most famous ones-do not actually take the conscious experience of the subject into consideration. Further, recent research highlights that there are very few behavioural or neural differences between conscious and unconscious mental imagery. I argue that treating mental imagery as not necessarily conscious (as potentially unconscious) would bring much needed explanatory unification to mental imagery research. It would also help us to reassess some of the recent aphantasia findings inasmuch as at least some subjects with aphantasia would be best described as having unconscious mental imagery. This article is part of the theme issue 'Offline perception: voluntary and spontaneous perceptual experiences without matching external stimulation'.
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