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A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality

2025-12-01

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<p>Humans are able to imagine scenarios that are decoupled from the current environment by internally activating perceptual representations. While an efficient re-use of existing resources, it remains unknown how human observers classify perceptual signals as reflecting external reality, as opposed to internal simulation or imagination. Here we show that judgments of reality are underpinned by the combined strengt...

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Literature Corpus work: 024cf7b7-44ef-58ab-80af-1e5e3f117893
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/dgjk6_v1

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