Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulation

By Samuel T. Moulton, Stephen M. Kosslyn. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, positive): “…et al. 2007; see also, McDermott et al. [2009] for a meta-analysis), imagine the future (e.g., Addis et al. 2007; see also, Hassabis & Maguire 2009; Moulton & Kosslyn 2009; Schacter et al. 2007), make context-sensitive Lindquist et al.: The brain basis of emotion 124 BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES…”
Motivation and Vision: An Analysis of Future L2 Self Images, Sensory Styles, and Imagery Capacity Across Two Target Languages (2013, background): “…imagery relies to a large extent on the same neural mechanisms and pathways as actual perception, and studies of brain damage have also shown that such injuries often produce parallel deficits in imagery and in perception (for reviews, see, e.g., Moulton & Kosslyn, 2009; Reisberg & Heuer, 2005).”
The ecology of human fear: survival optimization and the nervous system (2015, methodology): “These features of the security motivational model clearly overlap with Frontiers in Neuroscience | www.frontiersin.org 6 March 2015 | Volume 9 | Article 55 FIGURE 3 | The Survival Optimization System (SOS).”
Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications (2015, positive): “The main functions of mental imagery include simulating possible future scenarios and ‘reliving’ past experiences [83,102,103].”
Motivation, Vision, and Gender: A Survey of Learners of English in China (2016, background): “…that people activate similar neural mechanisms when they see or hear something as when they imagine seeing or hearing the same event in reality; in other words, the neural mappings of imagined and perceived stimuli largely coincide (cf. Kosslyn, Thompson, & Ganis, 2006; Moulton & Kosslyn, 2009).”
That sounds sweet: using cross-modal correspondences to communicate gustatory attributes (2015, background): “Mental imagery occurs when perceptual representations in memory are accessed in order to predictively simulate actual perceptual events or properties (Kosslyn, Ganis, & Thompson, 2001; Moulton & Kosslyn, 2009).”
Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition (2013, methodology): “We propose that we extensively use re-enactment processes and internal thought manipulations to perform complex forms of embodied problem solving, mostly unconsciously, but occasionally using conscious imagery as well [212]; see an example in Fig.”
Report Decoding Sound and Imagery Content in Early Visual Cortex (2014, positive): “In fact, previous accounts suggested that prediction and mental imagerymay involve overlapping brainmechanisms [6, 43, 44], and mental imagery might have evolved from predictive brain mechanisms.”
The proactive brain: memory for predictions (2009, background): “Yet more complex types of associations might combine the output of different modules performing mental simulations (Barsalou 2009; Hassabis & Maguire 2009; Moulton & Kosslyn 2009) and other relatively higher level operations.”
Prediction, Cognition and the Brain (2009, background): “…and emulations have previously been differentiated with respect to the type of phenomenon (goals and/or algorithms used by the original process) (Moulton and Kosslyn, 2009) or process (related to body or the environment) (Poirier and Hardy-Vallee, 2005) they mimic, as well as brain regions and…”
Mental imagery of speech: linking motor and perceptual systems through internal simulation and estimation (2012, background): “…November 2012 | Volume 6 | Article 314 | 1 HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE Mental imagery is further hypothesized to be a predictive process (for future perceptual states), in which the dynamics of perceptual experience can be retrieved/calculated and reconstructed internally (Moulton and Kosslyn, 2009).”