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...Kosslyn, who is a professor of psychology, said the results indicate that people who have more activation in the early visual area perform an imagery task faster...
...This might imply that brain scanning can be used to validate tasks that in turn can be used to select people who are good visualizers, and thus might make good observers, good architects, etc.," Kosslyn said in an e-mail...
...according to Kosslyn, three advances have overcome these difficulties...
...Kosslyn, along with researchers William L. Thompson, Irene J. Kim and Nathaniel M. Alpert, used these advances to determine whether tasks involving imagery would activate parts of the brain where spatial patterns of activity occur during perception...
More importantly, when comparing neural activity from the listening session and the imagery session, Kosslyn and his collaborators found evidence of activity in areas 17 and 18 of the brain, parts which are known to be spatially organized. Activity was found to vary depending on the size of the image, a relationship which parallels that found when eyes normally view an object...