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SUBMITTER: Sunday MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6161903 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sunday Mackenzie A MA McGugin Rankin W RW Tamber-Rosenau Benjamin J BJ Gauthier Isabel I
PloS one 20180928 9
Neuroimaging provides a unique tool to investigate otherwise difficult-to-access mental processes like visual imagery. Prior studies support the idea that visual imagery is a top-down reinstatement of visual perception, and it is likely that this extends to object processing. Here we use functional MRI and multi-voxel pattern analysis to ask if mental imagery of cars engages the fusiform face area, similar to what is found during perception. We test only individuals who we assumed could imagine ...[more]