New research has revealed that people with the ability to visualize vividly have a stronger connection between their visual network and the regions of the brain linked to decision-making. The study ...

When people read a book, they typically imagine the story in their heads. But how do people experience a story if they find it difficult or impossible to imagine what is being described? Cognitive ...

The scientific literature considers music either as an abstract stimulus, devoid of explicit meaning, or a universal language. Music listening rarely involves exclusive focus on the sounds themselves.

UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...

If you were asked to draw a picture of your grandparents’ living room from memory, could you do it? For most people, certain details are easy to visualize: “There’s a piano in the corner, a palm by ...