Flicker: Your Brain On Movies with Jeffrey Martin Zacks x Columbia Tatone | AD 184
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Mental imagery is older than sports psychology and it refers to forming images, visual or maybe auditory or touch or motor in your mind without the physical thing or action being there. So one of the things that people do a lot is have people mentally practice motions or actions that they're doing as part of their sport. There's a kind of surprising amount of the brain's cortex that shows correspondences in its representations of events whether those events are view or merely described in language. Movies are really interesting, stories are really interesting too. And in particular, all these metaphors that people come up with about movies having movies in their heads I think are fascinating and on target.
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