APS

2024 APS Annual Convention

Imagination

Friday, May 24, 2024 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Cognitive

Recent developments in neuroscience have revealed that imagination is not a single, cohesive process but involves complex brain networks. This symposium examines the neuroscience of imagination, its deficits in autism spectrum disorder, and its over-representation in some forms of mental illness and neurological disorders, and its use in virtual systems.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Gerry LeismanChair
    University of the Medical Sciences
  • Gerry LeismanChair
    Universithy of Haifa
  • Ty MelilloDiscussant
    Northeastern College of hte Health Science

Presentations

  1. Imagined Movement and Moving to ImagineGerry Leisman
  2. Imaginative Generativity in Evolution: The Role of Mental Imagery in Species AdaptationAmedeo D'Angiuli, Raymond Roy
  3. Imagining in Autism Spectrum Disorder and SchizophreniaRobert Melillo
  4. Effects of Quadrato Motor Training on Creativity and Alpha Coherence Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan