Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in #aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @zhanminye.bsky.social @alfredospagna.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social et al.; #neuroscience

Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study

Most of us effortlessly describe visual objects, whether seen or remembered. Yet, around 4% of people report congenital aphantasia: they struggle to visualize objects despite being able to describe th...

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** SOLD OUT ** but zoom option available! Imagine This: Reflections on Human Imagination www.eventbrite.com/e/imagine-th... Join us Wednesday, April 9th at 5:00 PM at the Jerome Greene Science Center for an exploration of human imagination, mental images, and aphantasia.

Since visual mental imagery requires at least drawing visual images from memory & making them available for experience there’s no need for either/or - aphantasia could arise from deficits in visual memory or w/ processing of visual priors as you suggest re: heterogeneity @alfredospagna.bsky.social

😭😭😭😭 tis the season…. TY notes, always make my day… ❤️

Full House last week (11/1) for Gabriella Bottini and Eraldo Paulesu’s talks at the Columbia University Psychology Department Colloquium. Great talks and great follow up convos during the Department reception.

Hahahah EXACTLY :) benvenuta Athena!

Athena Demertzi@ademertzi.bsky.social · 3y ago

Shocked by how familiar bluesky feels like.

Here are the slides of my talk on: "The role of Frontoparietal Attention Networks in conscious perception and voluntary imagination". I wanted to thank the organizers of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social, Camille Gasser & Herb Terrace. t.co/z0ggWnu6BF

Check out our latest paper: Colors in the mind’s eye. A Cortex single case study found intact mental imagery for colors in a patient with cerebral achromatopsia. Preprint here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/is6pm...

This evening's read: Dubey A, Markowitz DA, Pesaran B. Top-down control of exogenous attentional selection is mediated by beta coherence in prefrontal cortex. www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S...

Pretty sad prompts this weekend. This is not the face of science I usually like to draw but it's important to talk about this stuff 20. IVORY TOWER 21. BARRIER 22. STEREOTYPE #SciCommInk #drawingchallenge #SciComm #sciart #inktober

Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror. A MUST watch.. www.killersoftheflowermoonmovie.com

This evening’s read: “next frontiers in consciousness research” by @biyuhe.bsky.social . Find it here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Well, hello everyone on bluesky! Here is what I’m reading today (new account, new area of interest). “Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity” Hayter et al 2022, JTT. Check it out, and follow me for more recipes 😂 🇮🇹🍝 link.springer.com/article/10.1...