See ScienceDaily’s 12/4/09 article “Learning by imagining: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning” for the results of an interesting new study.
Here’s the opening paragraph:
Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning — learning by repeated exposure to a stimulus — can occur by mental imagery as much as by the real thing. The results, published in Current Biology, suggest that thinking about something over and over again could actually be as good as doing it. Read the rest of the article here.
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