The Neurobiology of Imagination: Possible Role of Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Default Mode Network

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 4; p. 296
• Main Authors: Agnati, Luigi F., Guidolin, Diego, Battistin, L., Pagnoni, G., Fuxe, K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 2013
• Subjects: Exaptation; Functional Module; imagery; Imagination; Mirror Neurons; Psychology; volume transmission; functional module; exaptation/mis-exaptation; volume transmission; imagination; modifiers; wiring transmission; astrocyte networks; imagery neural systems

This work aims at presenting some hypotheses about the potential neurobiological substrate of imagery and imagination. For the present purposes, we will define imagery as the production of mental images associated with previous percepts, and imagination as the faculty of forming mental images of a n...