People with aphantasia lack visual imagination. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) investigated how the lack of mental imagery ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Imagine a barking dog, a furry spider or another perceived threat and your brain and body respond much like they would if you experienced the real thing. Imagine it repeatedly in a safe environment and soon your phobia—and ...
Dec 10, 2018
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(Medical Xpress)—Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in a recent online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as crucial to a child's ...
Aug 28, 2012
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There's no question that our ability to remember informs our sense of self. Now research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, provides new evidence that the ...
Nov 7, 2012
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You can easily picture yourself riding a bicycle across the sky even though that's not something that can actually happen. You can envision yourself doing something you've never done before—like water skiing—and maybe ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Did the boy bite the cat, or was it the other way around?
Jul 14, 2022
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The so-called "meal-recall effect"—remembering a recent meal—can reduce how much food a person will eat later. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have investigated the impact on the meal-recall effect of imagining ...
Mar 7, 2023
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A doctor from the UK has shown how an innovative music video can help increase awareness of how to treat asthma.
Sep 10, 2013
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Deletions and duplications of DNA are responsible for wide-ranging developmental difficulties in children, finds a new study by Cardiff University.
May 3, 2019
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Stories about villains and heroes have captured the human imagination for centuries, and now those characters are ubiquitous on the packages and labels of products. But do these characters influence whether people are willing ...
Dec 21, 2018
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