The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from Aphantasia

Autor:	Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson, Marcus Wicken
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Special populations media_common.quotation_subject Population Sensory system Test (assessment) Aphantasia Perception Psychology education Function (engineering) Mental image media_common Cognitive psychology
DOI:	10.1101/726844
Popis:	One proposed function of imagery is to make thoughts more emotionally evocative through sensory simulations. Here we report a novel test of this theory utilizing a special population with no visual imagery: Aphantasia. After using multi-method verification of aphantasia, we show that this condition, but not the general population, is associated with a flat-line physiological response to frightening written, but not perceptual scenarios, supporting imagery’s critical role in emotion.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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