Sound of silence activates auditory cortex
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Auditory imagery occurs when one mentally rehearses telephone numbers or has a song 'on the brain'--it is the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory stimulation, and is useful for investigating aspects of human cognition. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify and characterize the neural substrates that support unprompted auditory imagery and find that auditory and visual imagery seem to obey similar basic neural principles.
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Task demands and content can alter the neural mechanisms of mental imagery, while attention affects imagery depth and perceptual processing within a hierarchical architecture.
“In addition, task demands and content can modulate the neural mechanisms that mediate the mental imagery (Kosslyn and Thompson, 2003; Kraemer et al., 2005), and attentional factors also influence the depth of imagery and perceptual processing in a hierarchical neural architecture (Moscovitch et al., 1994; Roland and Gulyas, 1994; Sakai and Miyashita, 1994; Mellet et al., 1998).”
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- Authors
- Kraemer, D. J. M., Macrae, C. N., Green, A. E., & Kelley, W. M.
- Affiliations
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kelley, William M.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2005-03-09
- Volume
- 434
- Issue
- 7030
- Pages
- 158-158
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1982625709
- Cited by
- 278
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- auditory imagery, auditory cortex, mental imagery, neural correlates, visual imagery, cognitive neuroscience
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Auditory Cortex, Humans, Imagination, Linguistics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Music, Visual Cortex
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