The brain network behind daydreaming and imagination keeps getting cast as the villain of mental life. A creativity ...

During visual imagination, a perceptual representation is activated in the absence of sensory input. This is sometimes described as seeing with the mind’s eye. A number of physiological studies ...

Close your eyes and picture an apple. Most people see something—a faint, slightly blurry image, less vivid than a real apple. A few, however, will see it as clearly as if it were sitting right in ...