This may reflect a gender difference in imagery skills; however, further research is needed to verify this hypothesis.
The results from logistic regressions pointed out that mental imagery skills and arithmetic problem solving ability had the highest discriminatory power in distinguishing between the two groups.
As noted in the Introduction, the left SMG has been associated with a wide range of cognitive skills including mental imagery, motor-skill learning and spatial processing.
The CBT condition incorporated pain education, progressive relaxation, imagery, coping skills training, cognitive restructuring, and attention diversion.
Moreover, a significant interaction between imagery perspective and skill level was found in the lower alpha band at the occipital site and in the upper alpha band at the parietal site.
The CBT focused on instruction and practice of nine skills, including the relaxation response, visual imagery techniques, pacing skills, pleasant activity scheduling, communication and assertiveness training, cognitive restructuring principles, stress management, and problem solving.
The concrete nature of the art product provides a platform for examining mental imagery, practicing coping skills, examining and changing maladaptive cognitions and behaviors.
These results lead us to consider future studies with other tests of imaging capacity, with the aim of confirming and generalizing the relation between mental imagery and artistic skills.
This study investigated acquisition of a mirror-reading skill via imagery training, without the actual performance of a mirror-reading task.
Functional imaging and lesion studies have identified the left SMG to be equally functionally complex, associated with a wide range of cognitive tasks including spatial perception, mental imagery, visuomotor control, motor skill learning and cognitive control (Cabeza & Nyberg, 2000; Nickel & Seitz, 2005; Table 1).
