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Psychological Research (2009) 73:633–643 DOI 10.1007/s00426-008-0175-1 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Cognitive and neuronal processes involved in sequential generation of general and speciWc mental images Simona Gardini · Cesare Cornoldi · Rossana De Beni · Annalena Venneri Received: 26 February 2008 / Accepted: 2 October 2008 / Published online: 6 November 2008 © Springer-Verlag 2008 Abstract Mental image generation is a complex process associated with visual processing of details) and the posterior mediated by dynamically interrelated components, e.g. cingulate cortex. When shifting from a speciWc image to a image generation and image enrichment of details. This general one, a higher level of activity was found in the middle study investigated the cognitive and neural correlates of frontal gyrus involved in global visuo-spatial processing, sequential image generation. An event-related fMRI exper- suggesting that the generation of speciWc images required iment was carried out in which general and speciWc images the retrieval of an object’s global shape. Altogether, these had to be generated sequentially in two diVerent positions. data suggest that the sequential generation of diVerent types Participants had to generate either a general image Wrst and of image is associated with discrete processes but also then a speciWc one or a speciWc image Wrst and then a gen- shares common cognitive and neural components. eral one, in response to the same word-stimulus. Generation times showed that speciWc images took shorter to be pro- duced if they had been preceded by the generation of a gen- Introduction eral image. The fMRI results showed that position of generation and type of image was associated with diVerent Several studie