2017
Increased rostral anterior cingulate activity following positive mental imagery training in healthy older adults
Murphy S, O’Donoghue M, Blackwell S, Nobre A, Browning M, Holmes E. Increased rostral anterior cingulate activity following positive mental imagery training in healthy older adults. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience 2017, 12: 1950-1958. PMID: 29069519, PMCID: PMC5716192, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx120.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRostral anterior cingulate cortexRostral anterior cingulate cortex activationHealthy older adultsPositive imageryCognitive trainingRostral anterior cingulate activityFunctional magnetic resonance imaging scansControl trainingMental imagesAmbiguous sentences taskAnterior cingulate activityBilateral hippocampal activationAmbiguous social eventsAnterior cingulate cortexImagery trainingOlder adultsResponse to cuesConsistent with other evidenceProspective imageryCingulate activityMental imagery trainingCingulate cortexAffective episodesHippocampal activitySentence task
2016
An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”
Di Simplicio M, Renner F, Blackwell S, Mitchell H, Stratford H, Watson P, Myers N, Nobre A, Lau‐Zhu A, Holmes E. An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”. Bipolar Disorders 2016, 18: 669-683. PMID: 27995690, PMCID: PMC5299482, DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12453.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-clinical controlsEmotional mental imageryBipolar disorderMental imageryAnxiety disordersExperimental tasksAssociation with affective labilityCognitive stagesMeasures of mental imageryPicture-word taskClinical control groupPremorbid IQTransdiagnostic markerAffective labilityEmotional psychopathologyProspective imageryUnipolar depressionDepressed individualsInterpretation biasNon-emotionalEmotional difficultiesImagery differencesImagery useBD groupSelf-involvement
2015
Imagining a brighter future: The effect of positive imagery training on mood, prospective mental imagery and emotional bias in older adults
Murphy S, O’Donoghue M, Drazich E, Blackwell S, Nobre A, Holmes E. Imagining a brighter future: The effect of positive imagery training on mood, prospective mental imagery and emotional bias in older adults. Psychiatry Research 2015, 230: 36-43. PMID: 26235478, PMCID: PMC4593863, DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.07.059.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCognitive bias modificationBias modificationOlder adultsInterpretation biasPositive affectCognitive trainingPost-trainingProspective mental imageryNegative interpretation biasBoost positive affectComputer-based cognitive trainingDecreased negative affectCognitive health outcomesOne-month follow-upProspective imageryNegative affectTrait anxietyEmotional biasMental imageryPositive imageryHealth outcomesControl trainingImagery trainingTraining groupAffect
2011
Imagery for shapes activates position-invariant representations in human visual cortex
Stokes M, Saraiva A, Rohenkohl G, Nobre A. Imagery for shapes activates position-invariant representations in human visual cortex. NeuroImage 2011, 56: 1540-1545. PMID: 21376815, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.071.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTop-down control mechanismsMultivoxel pattern analysisLateral occipital complexHigher-level visual areasNeural codingPerceptual codingModulation of functional connectivityControl mechanismsVisual cortexHuman visual cortexVisual areasCodeVisual codesTop-down controlControl centreOccipital complexVisual cortical areasFunctional connectivitySimple shapesCentral fixationVisual imageryCortical areasGeneral modelSensory inputCortex
2005
Language network specializations: An analysis with parallel task designs and functional magnetic resonance imaging
Gitelman D, Nobre A, Sonty S, Parrish T, Mesulam M. Language network specializations: An analysis with parallel task designs and functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroImage 2005, 26: 975-985. PMID: 15893473, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.03.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInferior parietal areasTask-specific activationLanguage tasksParietal areasLanguage systemFunctional magnetic resonance imagingCore language regionsMid-temporalInferior frontal cortexAssociated with particular aspectsPhonological tasksOccipito-temporalFrontal cortexLanguage regionsAdvent of functional imagingBrain activityExperimental sessionsLanguageMagnetic resonance imagingSubject groupsFunctional imagingTaskSegregation activityBrainResonance imagingDirecting spatial attention in mental representations: Interactions between attentional orienting and working-memory load
Lepsien J, Griffin I, Devlin J, Nobre A. Directing spatial attention in mental representations: Interactions between attentional orienting and working-memory load. NeuroImage 2005, 26: 733-743. PMID: 15955482, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.02.026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOrienting of spatial attentionWorking-memory loadWorking memoryMental representationsSpatial attentionEvent-related functional magnetic resonance imagingFunctional magnetic resonance imagingMedial frontal cortexOrienting spatial attentionDirect spatial attentionPosterior parietal cortexNeutral cuesAttentional orientingRetrieval of informationFrontal cortexMemory loadBehavioral measuresParietal cortexBrain areasProbe stimuliBehavioral resultsNeural systemsSpatial orientationInternal representationSpatial orientation functions