Sad to have missed this!

The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) has now been in existence for twenty years! We are going to hold a celebratory 20th Anniversary Conference on 4 – 6th June 2025 in Glasgow. We would love for you to join us.

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Defending the episodic memory account of aphantasia

Contra Michel et al.s' recent (2024) Letter in TICS (@matthiasmichel.bsky.social @jorge-morales.bsky.social), I argue that the episodic memory findings in aphantasia are genuine and defend the episodic memory account of aphantasia.

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Shaping the Space: A Role for the Hippocampus in Mental Imagery Formation Mental imagery is claimed to underlie a host of abilities, such as episodic memory, working memory, and decision-making. A popular view holds that mental imagery relies on the perceptual system and th...

My new article on the contributions of the hippocampus to mental imagery formation is now out in Vision!

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Exciting hypothesis which potentially competes with my own 2022 hypothesis that aphantasia is the result of deficient memory processes. Are these compatible? Potentially: aphantasia could be comprised of a heterogeneous group where we should seek different explanations for different sub-groups.

We also argue in this article that "aphantasia" might not pick out one unified condition. It's possible that some people we study have a deficit in metacognitive awareness, whereas others have one in episodic encoding/retrieval. Exciting hypotheses to test!

Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies Mental rotation tasks are frequently used as standard measures of mental imagery. However, aphantasia research has brought such use into question. Her…

Very interesting! Regarding what you say about mental rotation, it would be useful to also take into account that aphantasics report using non-imagistic strategies. This, together with higher accuracy, suggests that they do not use mental imagery to solve the task.

Looking for volunteers with and without #aphantasia for a study on memory and imagination at the
University of Glasgow! More info 👇