"Harvesting the Heart," one of Picoult's early novels, deals with this explicitly, imagining an overwhelmed young mother leaving her newborn.
Moreover, Stokes et al. (2009), using MVPA, did not detect reliable decoding in early visual areas when subjects were asked to explicitly imagine the letters X or O.
They point out that imagining that one is another person involves a process of explicitly framing the imagined person's thoughts as diverging from one's own.
In Tomasino et al., participants were explicitly required to imagine the content of the verbs, so that imagery presumably started as soon as the word appeared.
Although marriage never came up explicitly, the signs that I imagined were culminating into making a life-long commitment were everywhere.
Much of Star Trek is explicitly utopian it imagines a future in which humanity has eliminated war, poverty, and racism and has become so tolerant of differences that it has formed close bonds with alien races.
The researcher explicitly considers how far the causal consequences of each specific imagined error would spread through the model.
That's how different things were in the 1970s - imagine an explicitly paedophile organisation having a public voice in parliamentary discussion in 2012.
One might imagine that explicitly demonstrating respect for students would positively impact students' views of the instructor.
When expressed, her political leanings register in whispers rather than shouts — most explicitly, so far, in a series of sculptures from 2012 that are best imagined in the homes of rich collectors.
