I wrote about the unusual phenomenon of *reality shifting* for @psychmag.bsky.social - have a look, and get in touch if you've ever travelled to another world.
Yes, we've gone full Narnia.
Reality shifting - at the boundaries of the brain. @aldersonday.bsky.social, with links at the bottom to all our other 'imagination' pieces.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
a tv show in the style of THE PITT, focussed on universities, called THE ACADEMY. each hour of the show everybody just gets increasingly annoyed about administrative bullshit
New study! SDT used to dissociate body ownership sensitivity from perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion with partial visual occlusion. Disrupting visually-driven tactile predictions shifts perceptual bias but not visuotactile sensitivity. See below.
"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."
Wrote a little something for The Psychologist on our imaginations when reading fiction - exciting little piece!
I wrote about the unusual phenomenon of *reality shifting* for @psychmag.bsky.social - have a look, and get in touch if you've ever travelled to another world.
Yes, we've gone full Narnia.
Monkey auditory neurons "did not show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus repetitions, contrary to predictive-coding theory. However, they did show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus omissions." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reimagining imagination through the minds of fiction readers…
@georgiapunton.bsky.social (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Durham University).
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘Tulpas are not simply a companion imagined into being on a whim’
@dremmaclaire.bsky.social on tulpamancers.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘They can turn a normal city street into a jungle'
Ella Rhodes spoke to Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social (University of Liverpool), who researches extremes of mental imagery, individual differences in mental imagery, and their impacts.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
'Why don’t we hallucinate every time we imagine?'
Ella Rhodes spoke to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, a principal research fellow at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience (University College London), where she leads the Imagine Reality Lab.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Reality shifting – at the boundaries of the brain.
@aldersonday.bsky.social explores extremes of the imagination…
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
figure 1 from the paper linked in OP - similar prevalence of self-reported imagery scores across auditory and visual domains
new preprint from PhD student Gage Quigley-Tump, reporting a survey of 200,000 ppl on themusiclab.org about auditory imagery or the lack thereof ('anauralia', the auditory version of aphantasia)
osf.io/cm85z
some findings:
(1) self-reported imagery ability similar across auditory & visual domains
Things I thought I’d never say - here’s a new manuscript of cockroach and rat collective intelligence. We argue group-level intelligence can emerge from very different mechanisms—from simple local rules to socially mediated cooperation and learning:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Really great thread clarifying what that mega psychedelics paper did and didn't show...
I think it's POSSIBLE that people with a long history of a psychosis disorder have learnt to be a bit wary, whereas sane people don't have that wariness, so they're like Wow! what a great bot, it says such smart things, must listen to it.
But we'll see what the research says!
They are a particular kind of other and by design, I think that's the really tricky thing.
Yes, sounds very plausible. I think even in the anecdotal cases we're probably talking high-risk/low symptom situations mostly, not people with a long awareness of their experiences. Have you come across the Human Line Project?
Interesting! For psychosis I would have said A...
Lots of studies currently happening but not a lot of data out yet. Watch this space.
Very well put
I've said this before but will again: I don't think delusion is correct way of looking at the awful things happening here. The person is not imagining things to be said to them or confirmed. Closer and better term is coercion. The person is being scammed by a machine that has no goal but engagement
@aldersonday.bsky.social My excuse is that I only have 20 minutes to explain EVERYTHING there is to know about delusions and therefore I'll have to be brief and silly by necessity but hey - that's how life goes...
Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me!
The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me.
www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...
Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me!
The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me.
www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...
old ice lolly cinema ad for 'A Love Supreme'
Heathen that I am, for some reason I've always thought that 'A Love Supreme' sounds like the name of an ice cream or lolly.
"Two Cornettos, an Orange Maid, a choc ice, and a Love Supreme, please"
🚨 Our database is published in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
with Maximilian Stadler and @franziskaknolle.bsky.social
If you plan on working with German speech stimuli, check out our osf for auditory stimuli and our online tool for selecting sentence material 🪄
But yeah, Basically the far left reaction to the Hungarian election:
