Mental imagery and perception overlap within transmodal association networks

2026/03/01 by Nathan L. Anderson, Joseph J. Salvo, Jonathan Smallwood +1 · 1 voice
Engineering · Psychology · #Spatial Cognition and Navigation #Multisensory perception and integration #Action Observation and Synchronization

paper · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2026.03.013

Citations

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Discussions

• Our paper is out! This has been years in the making. We found that mental imagery and perception do share a neural substrate, but we see it in in higher-order transmodal networks rather than earlier [bsky, 13 points, 1 comments]