Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Neuron, found that ...

Dr. Victoria Heimer-McGinn, Professor at Roger Williams University, is talking with Christina about imagination and its connection in the brain. Imagination and Memories are controlled by the same ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Those aren’t just lyrics from the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They’re also the ...

The perception of reality through our vision is often misleading. We tend to believe that what we see is an accurate ...

As children grow into adulthood and then continue ageing, what happens to their imagination? Do all of us gradually lose our innate capacity to conjure up novelty to the drudgery of life, or does ...

Learn more about the eerie sensed presence and how it may be more prone in people with little imagination.