Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI study.

By Giorgio Ganis, William L. Thompson, Stephen M. Kosslyn. Brain research. Cognitive brain research, 2004

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Functional neuroanatomy of aversion and its anticipation (2006, methodology): “Overlapping thresholded regions that met the above criteria and fell within the anatomical boundaries of each of the five hypothesized regions (Talairach and Tournoux, 1988; Lancaster et al., 2000), as implemented in AFNI, were the focus of this conjunction analysis (Knutson et al., 2001; Ganis et ”
Reading the mind's eye: decoding category information during mental imagery (2009, background): “…m e p a g e : w w w. e l s e v i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / y n i m g perception is much larger in frontal regions, than in ventral–temporal cortex (Ganis et al., 2004), and finally, even in category-selective regions, imagery activates fewer voxels at a given statistical threshold (Ishai et al.,…”
A voxel-wise encoding model for early visual areas decodes mental images of remembered scenes (2014, neutral): “…o m / l o c a t e / y n i m g activity (Le Bihan et al., 1993; Sabbah et al., 1995; Goebel et al., 1998; Chen et al., 1998; Klein et al., 2000; O'Craven and Kanwisher, 2000; Ishai et al., 2002; Lambert et al., 2002; Ganis et al., 2004; Handy et al., 2004; Amedi et al., 2005; Cui et al., 2007).”
Visual mental image generation does not overlap with visual short-term memory: A dual-task interference study (2012, positive): “For example, Ganis, Thompson, and Kosslyn (2004) demonstrated that more than 90% of the same brain areas—including physically topographically organized structures—are activated in visual MI and in visual perception.”
Assessment and Therapeutic Application of the Expressive Therapies Continuum: Implications for Brain Structures and Functions (2010, background): “For example, with affectively neutral visual imagery, the overlap in neural networks between perception and imagery is more pronounced in the frontal and parietal regions than in the temporal and occipital regions (Ganis et al., 2004).”
Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications (2015, neutral): “Many studies reported no significant activity above baseline in the early visual cortex during mental imagery [38–45], but a slightly larger number of studies reported significant activity [46–57].”
A meta-analytic review of multisensory imagery identifies the neural correlates of modality-specific and modality-general imagery (2012, background): “Direct contrasts between perception- and imagery-related activity tend to show reduced activity in primary perceptual areas for imagery relative to perception (e.g., Ganis, 2004).”
Patterns of hemodynamic low-frequency oscillations in the brain are modulated by the nature of free thought during rest (2012, background): “A negative temporal correlation between the visual cortex and parietofrontal network underlies the difference between goal-directed imagery and spontaneous mental imagery occurring during rest; the former involves maintenance and transformation of information, requiring cooperation between the front”
Neural Mechanisms of Bidirectional Visuo‐Linguistic Transformation in Interactive Communication (2026, unknown): “Building on previous findings that providing more features of information enhances mental imagery vivid-ness (Ganis et al. 2004; Cui et al. 2007) and that highly detailed descriptive language facilitates comprehension and emotional engagement (Paivio 1990, 2014; Djikic and Oatley 2014), we…”