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Reflective thinking and mental imagery: a perspective on the development of posttraumatic stress disorderStephen M Kosslyn
Harvard University, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:851-63. 2005....- Two types of image generation: evidence from PETStephen M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 832 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:41-53. 2005..This overall similarity is counter to what would be expected if image generation is simply perceptual exploration in the absence of appropriate stimuli, as is posited by perceptual activity theory... - If neuroimaging is the answer, what is the question?S M Kosslyn
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 354:1283-94. 1999..Finally, the necessary interplay between neuroimaging and behavioural studies is stressed... - When is early visual cortex activated during visual mental imagery?Stephen M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Psychol Bull 129:723-46. 2003..Two of these variables were identified with a perceptual anticipation theory, and the other was identified with a methodological factors theory. Thus, the variability in the literature is not random... - Bridging psychology and biology. The analysis of individuals in groupsStephen M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 830 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am Psychol 57:341-51. 2002.... - Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brainS M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:1279-84. 2000..This study was designed to determine whether hypnosis can modulate color perception. Such evidence would provide insight into the nature of hypnosis and its underlying mechanisms... - Squinting with the mind's eye: effects of stimulus resolution on imaginal and perceptual comparisonsS M Kosslyn
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Mem Cognit 27:276-87. 1999..This finding demonstrates that, although imagery and perception may activate common brain regions, it is more difficult to represent high-resolution information in imagery than in perception... - Mental rotation of objects versus hands: neural mechanisms revealed by positron emission tomographyS M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychophysiology 35:151-61. 1998..The results suggest that at least two different mechanisms can be used in mental rotation, one mechanism that recruits processes that prepare motor movements and another mechanism that does not... - The role of area 17 in visual imagery: convergent evidence from PET and rTMSS M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 284:167-70. 1999..In sum, the PET results showed that when patterns of stripes are visualized, Area 17 is activated, and the rTMS results showed that such activation underlies information processing... - Visual mental imagery induces retinotopically organized activation of early visual areasScott D Slotnick
Department of Psychology, Boston College, McGuinn Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:1570-83. 2005..Moreover, blocked analysis revealed similar perception and imagery effects in human motion processing region MT+. These results support the depictive view of visual mental imagery... - Transcranial magnetic stimulation of primary motor cortex affects mental rotationG Ganis
Department of Psychology, Harvard University and Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cereb Cortex 10:175-80. 2000.... - Mental imagery of high- and low-resolution gratings activates area 17W L Thompson
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Neuroimage 14:454-64. 2001..These results indicate that the resolution of the stimuli alone does not necessarily determine whether Area 17 will be activated during visual mental imagery... - Imagined rotations of self versus objects: an fMRI studyMaryjane Wraga
Department of Psychology, Smith College, Science Center, Bass Hall 304, Northampton, MA 01063, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:1351-61. 2005..In both transformations, activation also occurred in other regions. These findings provide evidence for multiple spatial-transformation mechanisms within the human cognitive system... - Imagining rotation by endogenous versus exogenous forces: distinct neural mechanismsS M Kosslyn
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroreport 12:2519-25. 2001..Thus, there are at least two, qualitatively distinct, ways to imagine objects rotating in images, and these different strategies can be adopted voluntarily... - Two forms of spatial imagery: neuroimaging evidenceWilliam L Thompson
Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, UK
Psychol Sci 20:1245-53. 2009..These differences in activation provide evidence that there are at least two different types of spatial imagery... - Can patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder discriminate between percepts and mental images? A signal detection analysisH D Brown
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
J Abnorm Psychol 103:445-54. 1994..Groups did not differ in response criterion, beta, used to decide whether words had been seen or imaged. Implications for the study of OCD from an information-processing perspective are discussed... - Aging and the scope of visual attentionS M Kosslyn
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
Gerontology 45:102-9. 1999..To discover whether some cognitive deficits associated with aging could be related to a restricted scope of visual attention... - MiniCog: a method for administering psychological tests and experiments on a handheld personal digital assistantJ M Shephard
Psychology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Behav Res Methods 38:648-55. 2006..MiniCog performs automatic calculations of mean response time and error rate, available to users with a password and stored with the other data for upload... - The minicog rapid assessment battery: developing a "blood pressure cuff for the mind"Jennifer M Shephard
Harvard University Psychology Department, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:B192-7. 2005..We hope that this tool will allow quick and easy self-diagnosis of cognitive impairment, encouraging better mental health and facilitating safer on-the-job (and recreational) performance... - Understanding the effects of task-specific practice in the brain: insights from individual-differences analysesGiorgio Ganis
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:235-45. 2005..In short, individual-differences analyses provided insights into the relation between changes in brain activation and changes in accompanying performance, and these insights were not provided by standard group-based analyses... - You can play 20 questions with nature and win: categorical versus coordinate spatial relations as a case studyStephen M Kosslyn
832 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:1519-23. 2006.... - Neuroimaging evidence for object model verification theory: Role of prefrontal control in visual object categorizationGiorgio Ganis
Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuroimage 34:384-98. 2007.... - Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debateSamuel T Moulton
Harvard University, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:182-92. 2008..These findings are the strongest evidence yet obtained against the existence of paranormal mental phenomena... - Visual mental imagery and visual perception: structural equivalence revealed by scanning processesGregoire Borst
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Mem Cognit 36:849-62. 2008..The results provide evidence that mental images and perceived stimuli are represented similarly and can be processed in the same way... - Using brain-based measures to compose teams: how individual capabilities and team collaboration strategies jointly shape performanceAnita Williams Woolley
Department of Pscyhology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Soc Neurosci 2:96-105. 2007..The findings show that knowledge about brain systems can not only be used to compose teams, but also provides insights into how teams can best perform... - Types of deception revealed by individual differences in cognitive abilitiesCharity J Morgan
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Soc Neurosci 4:554-69. 2009..Each type of lie was predicted by a distinct set of MRAB scores. These results provide further evidence that deception is a multifaceted process and that different kinds of lies arise from the operation of different cognitive processes... - Neural processes underlying self- and other-related lies: an individual difference approach using fMRIGiorgio Ganis
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Soc Neurosci 4:539-53. 2009..The results confirmed both hypotheses and supported the utility of this individual differences approach in the study of deception in particular, as well in the study of complex cognitive phenomena more generally... - Individual differences in spatial mental imageryGregoire Borst
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 63:2031-50. 2010..Thus, we provide evidence that classical standardized spatial tests rely on spatial mental imagery but not object mental imagery... - Fear selectively modulates visual mental imagery and visual perceptionGregoire Borst
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 63:833-9. 2010..This study demonstrates that emotions have similar effects on low-level processing of visual percepts and of internal representations created on the basis of information stored in long-term memory... - Varying the scope of attention alters the encoding of categorical and coordinate spatial relationsGregoire Borst
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:2769-72. 2010..Although we did not test the hemispheric lateralization of these effects, these findings have direct implications for theories of why the cerebral hemispheres differ in their relative ease of encoding the two kinds of spatial relations... - Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulationSamuel T Moulton
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1273-80. 2009..This type of simulation, which we label emulation, has benefits over other types of simulations that merely mimic the content of the simulated scenario... - Visual mental imagery during caloric vestibular stimulationFred W Mast
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:101-9. 2006..In contrast, such stimulation did not affect performance of a low-imagery control task. These data document previously unsuspected interactions between the vestibular system and the high-level visual system... - Visual mental images can be ambiguous: insights from individual differences in spatial transformation abilitiesFred W Mast
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cognition 86:57-70. 2002..The ability to rotate images, assessed with an independent task, was highly associated with reports of image reversals, whereas measures of other imagery abilities were not... - Four types of visual mental imagery processing in upright and tilted observersFred W Mast
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:238-47. 2003..Performance in the image composition and detection tasks depended on body position, whereas there was no such effect for the transformation and resolution tasks... - Visual imagery in cerebral visual dysfunctionGiorgio Ganis
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neurol Clin 21:631-46. 2003..The brain is an enormously intricate organ, and even within a circumscribed domain such as imagery it seems to process information in complex and subtle ways... - The relationship of male testosterone to components of mental rotationCarole K Hooven
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:782-90. 2004.... - Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI studyGiorgio Ganis
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20:226-41. 2004..This finding may indicate that cognitive control processes function comparably in both imagery and perception, whereas at least some sensory processes may be engaged differently by visual imagery and perception... - The judgement of absence in neglectD Mijovic-Prelec
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Neuropsychologia 36:797-802. 1998.... - Deficits in visual cognition and attention following bilateral anterior cingulotomyK N Ochsner
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 39:219-30. 2001..One of the anterior cingulate's roles may be to monitor on-line processing and signal the motivational significance of current actions or cognitions... - Implicit transfer of motor strategies in mental rotationMaryjane Wraga
Department of Psychology, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA
Brain Cogn 52:135-43. 2003..These findings suggest that motor strategies can be covertly transferred to imaginal transformations of nonbody objects... - Perceptual and memory biases for health-related information in hypochondriacal individualsH D Brown
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
J Psychosom Res 47:67-78. 1999..Social class may account for some of the group differences in this sample. Hypochondriacal individuals in both samples showed better memory for health-related than nonhealth words... - Inspecting visual mental images: can people "see" implicit properties as easily in imagery and perception?William L Thompson
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Mem Cognit 36:1024-32. 2008..These findings provide support for the view that images can be reinterpreted in ways much like what occurs during perception and speak to the wider issue of the long-standing debate about the format of mental images... - Placebo-induced changes in FMRI in the anticipation and experience of painTor D Wager
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
Science 303:1162-7. 2004.... - Mental imagery of visual motion modifies the perception of roll-vection stimulationF W Mast
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Perception 30:945-57. 2001..Visualizing dots and actually viewing the dots deflected the spatial judgment in very similar ways. These results demonstrate that top down processing can affect allocentric space coordinates... - Neural correlates of different types of deception: an fMRI investigationG Ganis
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cereb Cortex 13:830-6. 2003..At least in part, distinct neural networks support different types of deception... - Retinotopic organization of visual mental images as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imagingIsabelle Klein
Anatomical and Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, SHFJ/DRM/DSV/CEA, 4, , 91401 Orsay, France
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 22:26-31. 2004..These findings strongly support that visual imagery and perception share low-level anatomical substrate and functional processes. Binding of spatial features is suggested as one possible mechanism... - Different cognitive processes in two image-scanning paradigmsGregoire Borst
LIMSI CNRS, Universite de Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Mem Cognit 34:475-90. 2006..Both processes, transforming the image and shifting an attention window, produce linear increases in time with increases in distance, but for different reasons... - Understanding the mind's eye...and noseStephen M Kosslyn
Nat Neurosci 6:1124-5. 2003 - Altering expectancy dampens neural response to aversive taste in primary taste cortexJack B Nitschke
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 2274, USA
Nat Neurosci 9:435-42. 2006..In addition, the activation of the right insula and operculum tracked online ratings of the aversiveness for each taste. Such expectancy-driven modulation of primary sensory cortex may affect perceptions of external events... - Does mental simulation of following a path improve navigation performance without vision?Stéphane Vieilledent
Laboratoire Mouvement Action et Performance Insep, 11 Avenue du Tremblay, 75012 Paris, France
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:238-49. 2003..Mental simulation appears to affect both a map-like and route-like representation of the environment... - Do separate processes identify objects as exemplars versus members of basic-level categories? Evidence from hemispheric specializationBruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Brain Cogn 53:15-27. 2003.... - Visual cortex excitability increases during visual mental imagery--a TMS study in healthy human subjectsRoland Sparing
Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02214, USA
Brain Res 938:92-7. 2002..These findings demonstrate for the first time a short-term, task-dependent modulation of PT. These results constitute evidence that early visual areas participate in visual imagery processing...
Research Grants
- Graduate Training in Psychology and NeuroimagingStephen Kosslyn; Fiscal Year: 2007..Throughout their training, students will be co-advised by one Harvard Psychology and one Martinos Center faculty. ..