Wow 🔥🔥🔥 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Vividness judgements are intended to capture variance in the axis that uniquely separates the experience of a mental image from other unambiguously sensory perceptual experiences, and from a completel...

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Why opt to directly misrepresent the paper?

Dr Reshanne Reeder@kerblooee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Humans are not black boxes. Experience is everything. This is not a definition problem. This is a "completely ignoring human experience" problem. Some things cannot be measured objectively (yet). Until then, qualitative evidence is the most important evidence we have.

📣New in PBR: Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Am curious about this debate because I feel like lesion studies would be fairly conclusive evidence that V1 is not necessary for mental imagery anyway. It can still be depictive without EVC (but "depictive" != "identical to a retinal image experience"). From doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Sam Schwarzkopf@sampendu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Interesting piece on #aphantasia. But any conclusion about decoding #mentalimagery from aphants is confounded if we lump low-imagery people in with those who say they only have semantic representations. All 3 studies reviewed did exactly that. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

If we ask all of them to visualise a black square instead, the idea that we can replicate mental image experiences with real images breaks. The diff between mental and real images can't be reduced to blur/saturation/etc philarchive.org/rec/AMYIV philpapers.org/rec/BOUWAS

Dr Reshanne Reeder@kerblooee.bsky.social · last yr.

Here you go: as described to individuals during interview: osf.io/hyefp/

Researcher: Let's throw a ball on the weekend P1: *brings a catcher’s mitt* P2: *brings a ballgown* Me: Shouldn’t we clarify what we mean by “ball”? Researcher: No need, we have shown meaningful differences in how P1/P2 experience the world Is this where we're at for ind diffs in mental imagery?

Dr Reshanne Reeder@kerblooee.bsky.social · last yr.

I.e., "People have different experiences of a construct that has a single term" - This actually supports my point 😅