Visual imagery and false memory for pictures:a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in healthy participants

BACKGROUND: Visual mental imagery might be critical in the ability to discriminate imagined from perceived pictures. Our aim was to investigate the neural bases of this specific type of reality-monitoring process in individuals with high visual imagery abilities. METHODS: A reality-monitoring task was administered to twenty-six healthy participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging. During the encoding phase, 45 words designating common items, and 45 pictures of other common items, were presented in random order. During the recall phase, participants were required to remember whether a picture of the item had been presented, or only a word. Two subgroups of participants with a propensity for high vs. low visual imagery were contrasted. RESULTS: Activation of the amygdala, left inferior occipital gyrus, insula, and precuneus were observed when high visual imagers encoded words later remembered as pictures. At the recall phase, these same participants activated the middle frontal gyrus and inferior and superior parietal lobes when erroneously remembering pictures. CONCLUSIONS: The formation of visual mental images might activate visual brain areas as well as structures involved in emotional processing. High visual imagers demonstrate increased activation of a fronto-parietal source-monitoring network that enables distinction between imagined and perceived pictures

Wondering Wanderers: Travel Behavior of Employees within NCR Plus Bubble amid Pandemic

The global health pandemic, which abruptly happened during the first half of the year 2020, has changed the lifestyles of a large worldwide population. This global crisis became a hindrance to the transportation system mainly because most countries imposed the emergency lockdown in order to mitigate the spread of the deadly virus. The Philippines was not an exemption to this lockdown, so, despite the enthusiasm of Filipinos towards traveling for leisure, the travel and tourism industry was the hardest hit because of the pandemic. This paper is focused on addressing the factors that would affect the willingness of the employees working within NCR Plus Bubble to take a vacation during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers were able to gather a total of 250 employees as their respondents, coming equally from different places within the declared NCR Bubble. Data was run through the SPSS software. Findings generally indicate that for every one unit, there is a significant increase in the different independent variables such as Travel History, Subjective Norm, Perceived Behavior Control, Perceived Knowledge of Covid-19 and Psychological Risk

Adenomyoepithelioma

Adenomyoepithelioma (AME) is a benign tumor of the breast, composed by a biphasic proliferation of phenotypically distinct myoepithelial cells and luminal epithelial cells. Following the first description by Hamperl (1970), Tavassoli (1991) identified three histologic variants, in which myoepithelial and epithelial cells are present in variable percentages, namely, spindle, tubular, and lobulated AME (Tavassoli 1991). AME with malignant features ( Malignant Adenomyoepithelioma (M-AME)) have seldom been reported (Hayes 2011) and named AME with carcinoma, when epithelial cells or myoepithelial cells show malignant cytomorphological features and malignant AME when these are present in both components (Brogi 2014)