Tracing Trade and Settlement Infrastructures in the Judaic Material Culture of Tafilalt, Southeastern Morocco by Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal

“…The analysis interprets the visual imagery that appears in these manuscripts—an imagery that corresponds with global Jewish symbols, with the vernacular architecture in the Tafilalt, and with wider regional, trans-Saharan conceptual motifs. …”
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The dot that means more. by He, Jocelyn Qingmin.

“…Finally, the second book showcases the process in which a series of symbols and visual imagery on experimental page layouts are all inspired by the features of the braille system. …”
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Modulation of beta oscillations in the subthalamic area during motor imagery in Parkinson's disease. by Kühn, A, Doyle, L, Pogosyan, A, Yarrow, K, Kupsch, A, Schneider, G, Hariz, M, Trottenberg, T, Brown, P

“…Patients were instructed to either extend the wrist [motor execution (ME)], to imagine performing the same task without any overt movement (MI), or, in a subgroup, to perform a non-motor visual imagery (VI) task. MI led to event-related desynchronization (ERD) of oscillatory beta activity in the region of the STN in all patients that was similar in frequency, time course and degree to the ERD occurring during ME. …”

The butterfly effect hits Complicité: a chaotic reading of Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number by Yas, Khalid Ahmad, Ali Termizi, Arbaayah, Talif, Rosli, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur

“…Conversely, Theatre de Complicité promotes nonlinearity and fragmentation for structure, and physicality and visual imagery for performance. It does not prefer pre-written texts rather favours devising its own through a lengthy process of improvising and rehearsing. …”
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Priming and reversals of the perceived ambiguous orientation of a structure-from-motion shape and relation to personality traits. by Leo Poom, Melina Matin

“…In Experiment 1 where the prime and test sequentially occupied the same location, we also administered questionnaires with the Big-5 trait openness and vividness of visual imagery to probe possible relations to top-down driven priming. …”
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Penalized canonical correlation analysis reveals a relationship between temperament traits and brain oscillations during mind wandering by Erkka Heinilä, Aapo Hyvärinen, Lauri Parkkonen, Tiina Parviainen

“…Methods We constructed task contrasts that included focused attention (FA), self‐centered future planning, and rumination on anxious thoughts triggered by visual imagery. Magnetoencephalography was recorded from 28 participants under these 3 conditions for a duration of 16 min. …”
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The electroencephalographic brainwave spectrum, mindful meditation, and awareness: Hypothesis by Vinod D Deshmukh

“…During effortless, meditative awareness, the whole family of alpha rhythm is synchronized including (a) Occipital-parietal alpha with visual clarity, formless color, and the absence of visual imagery (b) Frontal eye-field alpha with relatively motionless eyes, and the absence of voluntary actions or plans to move the eyes in some direction, along with nonactive working memory, (c) Somatosensory alpha or Mu rhythm from the somatic motor-sensory cortex with the resultant stillness of the body including head, face, larynx, spine, hands and legs, (d) Mid-temporal auditory alpha with vocal quietness and internal verbal silence (Maunam) with a feeling of spontaneous silence and serenity, (e) Cingulate and precuneus alpha resulting in freedom from autobiographical memories and the sense of agency or ego. …”
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Discursive Practices in the Formation of New Man through Soviet Photography Revisited: A Case Study of the Khalmg Ünn Newspaper, 1957–1964 by Viktoriya V. Kukanova, Larisa B. Mandzhikova, Lyubov B. Mandzhieva

“…The analysis of 1957–1964 Khalmg Ünn photographs as visual evidence of the past reveals that the then ideological techniques did not involve the theme of the Great Patriotic War to the full: despite the latter served a key element in the shaping of common Soviet identity, it was thenceforth closely associated with the drama of Kalmyk Deportation to Siberia. The newspaper’s visual imagery depicts a republic under reconstruction which was allegedly determined by the specific situation to have resulted from that the Deportation had been undertaken and explained by false accusations of treason and collaborationism — during war years. …”
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Motor imagery ability scores are related to cortical activation during gait imagery by Martina Putzolu, Jessica Samogin, Gaia Bonassi, Carola Cosentino, Susanna Mezzarobba, Alessandro Botta, Laura Avanzino, Dante Mantini, Alessandro Vato, Elisa Pelosin

“…We extracted Event-Related Desynchronizations (ERDs) in the θ, α, and β band, and we measured MI ability via (i) the Kinesthetic and Visual Imagery Questionnaire (KVIQ), (ii) the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire-2 (VMIQ), and (iii) the Imagery Ability (IA) score. …”
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“Picture this from there”: spatial perspective-taking in developmental visuospatial disorder and developmental coordination disorder by Camilla Orefice, Ramona Cardillo, Ramona Cardillo, Isabella Lonciari, Leonardo Zoccante, Irene C. Mammarella

“…Tasks assessing spatial perspective taking, fine-motor, visual imagery, and mental rotation skills, as well as visuo-spatial working memory were administered.Results and DiscussionOverall, our results confirmed weaknesses in spatial perspective taking in both clinical groups, with the DVSD obtaining the lowest scores. …”
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Association of visual conscious experience vividness with human cardiopulmonary function by Yan Sun, Xiaojuan Xue, Zefeng Li, Hailin Ma, Delong Zhang

“…In this study, we present the hypothesis that the oxygen-delivering efficacy of the cardiopulmonary metabolism contributes to the conscious experiences.Method:To test this hypothesis, we carried out a large cohort of investigations with regards to mental imagery, to highlight the connection of visual imagery vividness with oxygen‐delivering ability in an organism. …”
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Multiscale Convolutional Transformer for EEG Classification of Mental Imagery in Different Modalities by Hyung-Ju Ahn, Dae-Hyeok Lee, Ji-Hoon Jeong, Seong-Whan Lee

“…In this study, we designed an experimental paradigm based on motor imagery, visual imagery, and speech imagery tasks to interpret the neural representations during mental imagery in different modalities. …”
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Effects of motor imagery training on skeletal muscle contractile properties in sports science students by Björn Wieland, Michael Behringer, Karen Zentgraf

“…Methods Forty-five physically active sport science students (21 female) were investigated who trained three times per week over a 4-week period in one of three groups: An MI group conducted MI practice of maximal isometric contraction of the biceps brachii; a physical exercise (PE) group physically practiced maximal isometric contractions of the biceps brachii in a biceps curling machine; and a visual imagery (VI) group performed VI training of a landscape. …”
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Differential Influence of the Dorsal Premotor and Primary Somatosensory Cortex on Corticospinal Excitability during Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery: A Low-Frequency Repetitive... by Viola Oldrati, Alessandra Finisguerra, Alessio Avenanti, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Cosimo Urgesi

“…However, it is still unclear whether their involvement is specific for either kinesthetic or visual imagery or whether they contribute to motor activation for both modalities. …”
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Monitoring the impacts of crop residue cover on agricultural productivity and soil chemical and physical characteristics by Mohammad Kazemi Garajeh, Keyvan Hassangholizadeh, Amir Reza Bakhshi Lomer, Amin Ranjbari, Ladan Ebadi, Mostafa Sadeghnejad

“…A convolutional neural network (CNN), a class of artificial neural network has commonly applied to analyze visual imagery, was employed in this study for CRC detection in two classes (Not-CRC and CRC) for the years 2013, 2015, and 2021. …”
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Investigating the role of memory on pain perception using FMRI by Fairhurst, K

“…Following on from studies in motor and visual imagery, we explore how pain imagery in the form of recall may affect subsequent pain perception. …”

Self-prioritization in motor responses by Desebrock, C

“…</p> <p>This thesis demonstrates that: (1) stimulus and label modality and task-design can modulate self-bias; (2) self-associations did not produce similar motor speed gains in simple detection motor responses, suggesting that self-bias in motor responses to unisensory and multisensory stimuli depends on explicit self–other evaluations; (3) self-bias can influence non-ballistic visual-feedback-driven arm-movements, ballistic arm-movements without visual feedback, and arm-movements directed ‘toward’ and ‘away’ from the stimuli; in other words, self-bias modulates ballistic arm-movements using proprioceptive, kinaesthetic, and tactile information (and potentially visual imagery), but not relevant exogenous visual input; (4) self-bias can influence both the initiation and execution of arm-movements; highlighting a modulation at multiple stages; (5) empathy and perceived closeness can predict self-bias and friend-bias, suggesting that the biases in manual motor responses are influenced by consciously-accessible representations of the interrelations between others and the self.…”

Bouba or kiki with and without vision: Shape-audio regularities and mental images by Graven, T, Desebrock, C

“…This study investigated the bouba/kiki-effect when using haptic touch instead of vision, including the role of visual imagery. It also investigated whether the bouba/kiki shape-audio regularities are noticed at all, that is, whether they affect the bouba/kiki-effect itself and/or the recognition of individual bouba/kiki shapes, and finally what mental images they produce. …”

The Relationships Between Trait Creativity and Resting-State EEG Microstates Were Modulated by Self-Esteem by Xin Wu, Xin Wu, Jiajia Guo, Jiajia Guo, Yufeng Wang, Yufeng Wang, Feng Zou, Feng Zou, Peifang Guo, Jieyu Lv, Meng Zhang, Meng Zhang

“…Based on these results, we thought that trait creativity was related to the executive control of bottom-up processing for individuals with low self-esteem, while the bottom-up information from vision or visual imagery might be related to trait creativity for individuals with high self-esteem.…”
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Effects of mental imagery on lower limb function in sub-acute stage of stroke patients; a randomized controlled trial by Wajiha Shahid, Maryam Shabbir, Anam Naz, Naveed Arshad, Umair Ahmed

“…Conservative treatment including strengthening and balance training were given to one group and conservative treatment with addition of visual imagery to the second group. Independent t-test was used to assess significant differences between the two groups. …”
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