Two of our researchers @georgiapunton.bsky.social & @aldersonday.bsky.social explore the concept of imagination in articles published April's edition of @psychmag.bsky.social, part of a six-part series on the imagination 💭 Read the articles 👇

Reimagining imagination in The Psychologist

Ben Alderson-Day and Georgia Punton explore imagination through two articles recently published in The Psychologist.

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Wrote a little something for The Psychologist on our imaginations when reading fiction - exciting little piece!

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Reimagining imagination through the minds of fiction readers… @georgiapunton.bsky.social (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Durham University). www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

What kind of reader are you? On #WorldBookDay, take a deep dive into the mysteries of the reading imagination with @thereaderbank.bsky.social 👉 readerbank.org 🧵

Very happy to say my sleep deprivation study from my PhD has been published in the Journal of Sleep Research. Specifically, we found that sleep deprivation may impair the inhibition of irrelevant memories from working memory, which is reversed after recovery sleep.

Early Career Hallucinations Research Group@echrhallucinations.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper from @georgiapunton.bsky.social's PhD. Sleep deprivation may increase risk of hallucinations through effects on intentional inhibition (ICIM performance) rather than performance of signal detection task performance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I deleted X a long while ago, yet I've put off hard launching a BlueSky for over a year. It's sort of sad seeing all my documented efforts as a student etc lost to the void that was Twitter. And so, because I'm stickler for chronology, I thought I'd post a lil synopsis of the last few years here!