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Hiroshi Yamakawa, Ayako Fukawa, Ikuko Eguchi Yairi, Yutaka Matsuo
Background Imagination represents a pivotal capability of human intelligence. To develop human-like artificial intelligence, uncovering the computational architecture pertinent to imaginative capabilities through reverse engineering the brain's computational functions is essential. The existing Structure-Constrained…
Víctor Bermúdez, Renata Gambino, Benito García-Valero, Grazia Pulvirenti
'Grazia Pulvirenti'] Imagination has long been and continues to be an enigmatic concept, frequently addressed but rarely fully elucidated, even by prominent philosophers such as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Husserl. Its definition and interpretation changes significantly across different heuristic…
Renata Gambino, Grazia Pulvirenti
According to ancient texts on poetics, the concept of representation is deeply bound to that of “mimesis;” this last was intended in two main ways: as “imitation” and as “world construction.” In Aristotle's Poetics, mimesis is theorized as the main form of “world simulation,” giving rise to the complex universe of…
Evgenii E. Vityaev, Andrei Mantsivoda
Cognitive imagination is a type of imagination that plays a key role in human thinking. It is not a "picture-in-the-head" imagination. It is a faculty to mentally visualize coherent and holistic systems of concepts and causal links that serve as semantic contexts for reasoning, decision making and prediction. Our…
Kristen N. Lamb, Jeb S. Puryear
Imagination is an essential component of the creativity process. Despite its important role in the creative process, imagination has received comparatively little attention in creativity research. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine how imagination is defined in empirical literature, the role it plays…
Saurabh Ranjan, Brian Odegaard
What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we propose that imagination serves to access an internal world model (IWM) and use psychological network analysis to explore IWMs…
Michael Sun, Bogdan Petre, Ke Bo, Carmen I. Bango + 4 more
Imagination is a principal human capacity, enabling simulation of sensations and situations for planning, learning, and empathy. We examined neural representations of experienced and imagined pain across eight body sites using deep-phenotyping, precision functional MRI with over seven hours of scanning per participant…
Sangil Lee, Trishala Parthasarathi, Joseph W. Kable
Recent work has shown that the brain’s default mode network (DMN) is active when people imagine the future. Here we test whether future imagination can be decomposed into two dissociable psychological processes linked to different subcomponents of the DMN. While measuring brain activity with fMRI as subjects imagine…
Charlotte Murphy, Nerissa Siu Ping Ho, Boris Bernhardt, C. Neil Macrae + 4 more
The ability to visualise different people and places in imagination is a core element of human cognition. Contemporary neuroimaging research highlights regions of primary visual cortex as important in instantiating images in the mind’s eye. Here we combine task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging with measures…
Eleonora Parrotta, Katrina L. McDonough, Patric Bach
Recent approaches conceptualize mental imagery as a simulatory mode of perceptual experience, which relies on the voluntary engagement of the same top-down prediction processes that shape our perception of the external world. If so, then imagery should induce similar predictive biases as those that are known to govern…
Joel Pearson, Stephen M. Kosslyn
Our ability to be conscious of the world around us is often discussed as one of the most amazing yet enigmatic processes under scientific investigation today. However, our ability to imagine the world around us in the absence of stimulation from that world is perhaps even more amazing. Our capacity to re-experience…
Paul H. W. Disberg
Scientific articles, for instance in the field of astrophysics, are often filled with a variety of images. In philosophical studies, these images are usually analyzed in terms of their function within the scientific argument presented in the article. However, not all images that can be found in astrophysical articles…
Botao Amber Hu
Improvisation—the art of spontaneous creation that unfolds moment-to-moment without a scripted outcome—requires practitioners to continuously sense, adapt, and create anew. It is a fundamental mode of human creativity spanning music, dance, and everyday life. The open-ended nature of improvisation produces a stream of…
Alexander A Sulfaro, Amanda K Robinson, Thomas A Carlson
Although mental imagery is often studied as a visual phenomenon, it can occur in any sensory modality. Given that mental images may recruit similar modality-specific neural systems to those which support veridical perception, the properties of mental images may be constrained by the modality in which they are…
Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Charles Mellerio, Paul Hérent, Alizée Lopez‐Persem + 5 more
fMRI Authors: ['Hugo Caselles-Dupré' 'Charles Mellerio' 'Paul Hérent' 'Alizée Lopez‐Persem' 'Benoît Béranger' 'Mathieu Soularue' 'Pierre Fautrel' 'Gauthier Vernier' 'Matthieu Cord'] Hugo Caselles-Dupré1 , Charles Mellerio2,3,4 , Paul Hérent5 , Alizée Lopez-Persem6 , Benoit Béranger7 , Mathieu Soularue1 , Pierre…
Loren N. Bouyer, Dietrich S. Schwarzkopf, Blake W. Saurels, Derek H. Arnold
Most people can imagine images that they experience within their mind’s eye. However, there are marked individual differences, with some people reporting that they are unable to construct mental images at all (aphantasics), and others who report having imagined experiences that are as realistic as seeing…
Zhengcheng Shen, Linh Kästner, Magdalena Yordanova, Jens Lambrecht
—Autonomous navigation of mobile robots is an essential task for various industries. Sensor data is crucial to ensure safe and reliable navigation. However, sensor observations are often limited by different factors. Imagination can assist to enhance the view and aid navigation in dangerous or unknown situations where…