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
This hybrid event features an interactive art experience, a book presentation (Ways of Thinking and Imagining), + a panel with:
--> Steve Fleming (UCL)
--> Sarah Shomstein (GW)
--> Tom Ebeyer (Aphantasia Network) & moderation by Alfredo Spagna (Columbia)
** SOLD OUT ** but zoom option available!
Imagine This: Reflections on Human Imagination
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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!
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 😂 🇮🇹🍝
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