For most people, visual imagery plays a significant role in how we process language, especially when reading narratives.

Visual imagery—the ability to mentally summon the image of a landscape, a person, or an object that is not directly observable—varies greatly in intensity from one individual to another.

Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI study. Cognitive Brain Research , 20 (2), 226-241. More references ...

October means baseball playoffs, and if you are a baseball fan, ... Who is on base, who is up next, and how long the pitcher has been in the game. A lot of visual imagery can be at work ...

The most famous test is called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, created in 1973 to study the strength of mental imagery, long before aphantasia was named.

These processes were even less defined in 2003, when an articulate and bright 60-year-old man walked into Adam Zeman’s office. Zeman, a neurologist at the universities of Edinburgh and Exeter who ...

Every day, we call upon a unique capacity of our brain, visual mental imagery, which allows us to visualise images, objects or people 'in our heads'. Based on the recent case of a patient with a ...

Far from it. “I can imagine things, I can create very complex imagery,” she explains. “It is just not in [a] visual form. So for me, everything is black—but I have a concept, I mentalize ...

Roger Angell, the elegant and thoughtful baseball writer who was widely considered among the best America has produced, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 101.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Brownsburg photographer is forever changing baseball imagery. James Black, owner of James Black Photography and a photographer for ICON Sportswire, was tasked with coming ...