What if the pictures in your mind were not just faint impressions? Hyperphantasia shows how imagination can become both a ...

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When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...

Visualizing a memory is a common occurrence for many people. A whiff of cinnamon and ginger may whisk you back to your childhood kitchen to relive eating freshly baked cookies, while hearing a ...

Over the past decade, Jackie Andrade and Jon May of the University of Plymouth (UK) have been fine-tuning a unique approach to behavioral change called Functional Imagery Training. FIT uses ...

Driving a car is not an option for Jake S., a musician and artist in Hamilton, Ontario. When he first tried to get behind the wheel years ago, his mind would flicker between the road ahead and the ...