Excited to share our Preview about this excellent recent paper. In this Preview, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and I explore how these findings connect with the rich literature on sensory reinstatement during imagery, and outline important questions for future imagery research! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real’ with Nora Petrova, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

A feature in Nature examines the research about aphantasia, which is the experience of people with no mental imagery, and how it could offer a window into consciousness. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?

People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.

go.nature.com

Super happy to share my very first first-author paper out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! We show content-specific predictions are represented in an alpha rhythm. It’s been a beautiful, inspiring, yet challenging journey. Huge thanks to everyone, especially @peterkok.bsky.social @jhaarsma.bsky.social

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

On Wednesday at 10:45 @pazbartal.bsky.social will present: P3.48 | The Influence Of Scene Context On Perceptual Reality Monitoring Presenting preliminary results that suggest that imagery is more vivid and more likely to be confused for perception within congruent scene contexts.

Looking forward to #ICON2025 next week! We will have several presentations on mental imagery, reality monitoring and expectations: To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present: P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors

🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 After 4 years of work, our new research on the Sense of Reality is finally out! Using Virtual Reality, we investigate our response to Virtual Hallucinations across different reality domains! Discover how our minds and bodies react when reality isn't quite what it seems...

Roy Salomon@royesal.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint! How do we know what is real? so... "Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological & Computational Model of the Sense of Reality" is out! The result of 4 years of incredible teamwork👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First dinner with the new lab! 🤩🧠 With @giuliacabbai.bsky.social, @pazbartal.bsky.social, @steveallsopp.bsky.social, Bohdana Neurathova, Rico Stecher and Luna Huestegge.

What an opportunity! I am really grateful to work with the amazing @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, can't wait to see the groundbreaking research ahead!

Nadine Dijkstra@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to announce that @pazbartal.bsky.social has started as the very first PhD student of the imaginerealitylab.org! Paz received the prestigious UCL Research Excellence Scholarship to study how reality monitoring is influenced by the environment. Looking forward to working together! 🧠