Mental imagery is closely linked to emotional experience, mental health, and neurodevelopmental variation. Yet why imagery should be so pervasively associated with both affective and neurodevelopmenta...

Interoception, the sense of the internal state of the body, plays a fundamental role in emotional awareness and self-referential processing. Recently, interoception has been linked to the experience o...

Aphantasia, the strong diminution or complete absence of mental imagery, challenges long-standing views of imagery as central to cognition. Competing …

What is the source of individual differences in the experience of mental imagery? While parallels are often drawn between imagery abilities and the perception of external stimuli, we propose that these differences need to be considered in a wider context that encompasses personality traits and tende …

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Scientific Reports - The role of subjective interoception in autobiographical deficits in aphantasia

Vividness of visual imagery varies considerably across individuals, yet its neural underpinnings remain unclear. As emphasized in recent debates, a ke…

Aphantasia (the inability to voluntarily generate mental imagery) has traditionally been studied as a congenital or neurological condition. However, h…

Interoception, the sense of the internal state of the body, plays a fundamental role in emotional awareness and self-referential processing. Recently, interoception has been linked to the experience o...

Own mental states depend on inferred interoceptive states. Understanding another’s mental states (ToM) also entails interoceptive predictions. Multimodal expectations at deep hierarchical levels contr...

Most people can imagine images that they experience within their mind's eye. However, there are marked individual differences, with some people report…

Abstract. Predictive processing theories state that our subjective experience of reality is shaped by a balance of expectations based on previous knowledge

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