Your imagination isn't just one thing. The latest neuroscience is untangling just how diverse this faculty really is, says cognitive neurologist Adam Zeman
Perhaps counterintuitively, though, our imagination isn’t a single thing. Rather, the latest research suggests it exists in at least four forms.Conjure up the image of an apple in your mind’s eye. Is it green or red? Does its skin shine? Does it have a stalk? Can you get a sense of its weight as you gently twirl it? Does it have a scent? If these questions make sense to you, you have created a “sensory image” of an apple. This kind of imagination is known as reproductive.
When you do so, research suggests, the brain regions that activate strongly when you look at an apple activate weakly, giving your imagery its visual feel. We know this because brain imaging has shown directly that visual cortices fire up when we visualise things. Plus, forming an image can have similar physiological effects to looking at the real thing. For example, if you imagine looking into the sun, your pupils will constrict.
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